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Student Understanding Of The Physics And Mathematics Of Process Variables In P-V Diagrams 
  
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Upper Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Pedagogy / Analogies
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Other Sciences / Mathematics
Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics / General
Education Foundations / Learning Theory
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E. Pollock, J. Thompson, and D. Mountcastle - Conference Proceedings
Students in an upper-level thermal physics course were asked to compare quantities related to the First Law of Thermodynamics along with similar mathematical questions devoid of all physical context. We report ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820924
Salience of Representations and Analogies in Physics 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Pedagogy / Analogies
Electricity & Magnetism / General
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Education Foundations / Communication / Representations
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N. Podolefsky and N. Finkelstein - Conference Proceedings
This paper focuses on the dynamics as students reason using analogies. We describe analogical scaffolding, a model of cognitive processes by which students can use prior knowledge to learn new material, and ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820923
Student Estimates of Probability and Uncertainty in Advanced Laboratory and Statistical Physics Courses 
  
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Upper Undergraduate
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General Physics / Physics Education Research
Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics / General
Education Practices / Pedagogy
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D. Mountcastle, B. Bucy, and J. Thompson - Conference Proceedings
Equilibrium properties of macroscopic systems are highly predictable as n, the number of particles approaches and exceeds Avogadro's number; theories of statistical physics depend on these results. Typical ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820919
Research-based Practices For Effective Clicker Use 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Pedagogy / Instructional Issues
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Education Practices / Technology
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C. Keller, N. Finkelstein, K. Perkins, S. Pollock, C. Turpen, and M. Dubson - Conference Proceedings
Adoption of clickers by faculty has spread campus-wide at the University of Colorado at Boulder from one introductory physics course in 2001 to 19 departments, 80 courses, and over 10,000 students. We study ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820913
High school students' conceptual coherence of qualitative knowledge in the case of the force concept 
  
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High School
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Education Practices / Active Learning
Education Foundations / Assessment of Students / Instruments
Education Foundations / Communication / Representations
Education Foundations / Learning Theory
Education Foundations / Research Design & Methodology
Education Foundations / Student Characteristics / Ability
Education Foundations / Student Populations
Education Foundations / Student Populations / English as a Second Language
Education Practices / Pedagogy / Instructional Issues
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A. Savinainen - Thesis
The notion of students’ conceptual coherence is introduced in this thesis to clarify what is meant by conceptual understanding. Students’ conceptual coherence is divided into three aspects: contextual, representational, ...
http://joypub.joensuu.fi/publications/dissertations/savinainen_coherence...
Improving Students' Conceptual Understanding of Conductors and Insulators 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Foundations / Alternative Conceptions
Electricity & Magnetism / Electrostatics / Conductors and Insulators
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Education Foundations / Assessment of Students / Instruments
Education Foundations / Cognition
Education Practices / Pedagogy
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J. Bilak and C. Singh - Conference Proceedings
We examine the difficulties that introductory physics students, undergraduate physics majors, and physics graduate students have with concepts related to conductors and insulators covered in introductory physics ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820944
Facilitating Conceptual Learning Through Analogy And Explanation 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Foundations / Learning Theory
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T. Nokes and B. Ross - Conference Proceedings
Research in cognitive science has shown that students typically have a difficult time acquiring deep conceptual understanding in domains like mathematics and physics and often rely on textbook examples to ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820952
A Preliminary Study of the Effectiveness of Different Recitation Teaching Methods 
  
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R. Endorf, K. Koenig, and G. Braun - Conference Proceedings
We present preliminary results from a comparative study of student understanding for students who attended recitation classes which used different teaching methods. Student volunteers from our introductory ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2177030
A Comparison of Student Understanding of Seasons Using Inquiry and Didactic Teaching Methods 
  
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P. Ashcraft - Conference Proceedings
Student performance on open-ended questions concerning seasons in a university physical science content course was examined to note differences between classes that experienced inquiry using a 5-E lesson planning ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2177029
Analogical Scaffolding: Making Meaning in Physics through Representation and Analogy 
  
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Professional Development
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N. Podolefsky - Thesis
This work reviews the literature on analogy, introduces a new model of analogy, and presents a series of experiments that test and confirm the utility of this model to describe and predict student learning ...
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8784&DocID=1145
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