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Analogical Scaffolding: Making Meaning in Physics through Representation and Analogy 
  
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Professional Development
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Education Practices / Pedagogy / Analogies
Education Foundations / Communication / Representations
Education Foundations / Learning Theory
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N. Podolefsky - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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
Analogies as Categorization Phenomena: Studies from Scientific Discourse 
  
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Education Foundations / Cognition
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L. Atkins - Thesis
Publication Date: November 29, 2006
Studies on the role of analogies in science classrooms have tended to focus on analogies that come from the teacher or curriculum, and not the analogies that students generate. Such studies are derivative ...
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4726&DocID=186
The Role of Language in Learning Physics 
  
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Education Foundations / Communication / Language
General Physics / Physics Education Research
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D. Brookes - Thesis
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
Many studies in PER suggest that language poses a serious difficulty for students learning physics. These difficulties are mostly attributed to misunderstanding of specialized terminology that often assigns ...
http://research.physics.illinois.edu/PER/David/thesis_Y2.pdf
Assessing College Students' Retention and Transfer From Calculus to Physics 
  
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Education Foundations / Student Characteristics
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L. Cui - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
Many introductory calculus-based physics students have difficulties when solving physics problems involving calculus. This study investigates students’ retention and transfer from calculus to physics. While ...
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4769&DocID=209
A Study of Social Interaction and Teamwork in Reformed Physics Laboratories 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Active Learning / Cooperative Learning
Education Foundations / Student Characteristics / Ability
Education Practices / Curriculum Development / Laboratory
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P. Gresser - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2005
For many students, learning can be accomplished most effectively through social interaction with peers, and there have been many successes in using a group environment to improve learning in a variety of classroom ...
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4767&DocID=207
High school students' conceptual coherence of qualitative knowledge in the case of the force concept 
  
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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
Publication Date: August 13, 2004
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...
An Explanatory Model of Physics Faculty Conceptions about the Problem-Solving Process 
  
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Education Foundations / Teacher Characteristics
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V. Kuo - Thesis
Publication Date: August 1, 2004
One commonly stated instructor goal for an introductory calculus-based physics course is to improve students’ problem solving skills. There is, however, a growing body of research evidence to suggest that ...
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=3784&DocID=112
A Cognitive Framework for Analyzing and Describing Introductory Students' Use and Understanding of Mathematics in Physics 
  
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J. Tuminaro - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2004
This webpage offers a doctoral dissertation in which the author proposes a theoretical framework to analyze and describe students' mathematical thinking in physics. The author addresses two particular questions. ...
http://www.physics.umd.edu/rgroups/ripe/perg/dissertations/Tuminaro/
Students' Understanding of Measurement and Uncertainty in the Physics Laboratory: Social construction, underlying concepts, and quantitative analysis 
  
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R. Lippmann - Thesis
Publication Date: January 1, 2003
This webpage offers a doctoral dissertation, users can select to download by chapter, in which the researcher use of interviews, surveys, and video data to determine underlying concepts commonly used by students ...
http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/dissertations/Lippmann/
Inclusion of the Energy Thread in the Introductory Physics Curriculum: An Example of Long-Term Conceptual and Thematic Coherence 
  
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High School
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Education Practices / Curriculum Development / Course
Motion, Forces, and Energy / Work and Energy
General Physics / Physics Education Research
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E. Brewe - Thesis
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
The energy thread is a logical outgrowth of the modeling theory of physics instruction; it exemplifies a conceptually and pedagogically coherent theme designed to enhance connections between models inherent ...
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4761&DocID=205
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