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Measuring Students’ Beliefs about Physics in Saudi Arabia 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Foundations / Societal Issues / International Issues
General Physics / Physics Education Research
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H. Alhadlaq, F. Alshaya, S. Alabdulkareem, K. Perkins, W. Adams, and C. Wieman - Conference Proceedings
Over the last decade, science education researchers in the US have studied students' beliefs about science and learning science and measured how these beliefs change in response to classroom instruction in ...
http://www.compadre.org/PER/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9444&DocID=1319
Comparing Student Use of Mathematical and Physical Vector Representations 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Foundations / Assessment of Students / Instruments
General Physics / Physics Education Research
General Physics / Vector Algebra
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Education Foundations / Communication / Representations
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J. Van Deventer and M. Wittmann - Conference Proceedings
Research has shown that students have difficulties with vectors in college introductory physics courses and high school physics courses; furthermore, students have been shown to perform worse on a vector task ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820935
Effect of Misconception on Transfer in Problem Solving 
  
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Education Foundations / Cognition / Cognition Development
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C. Singh - Conference Proceedings
We examine the effect of misconceptions about friction on students' ability to solve problems and transfer from one context to another. We analyze written responses to paired isomorphic problems given to introductory ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820931
Improving Students' Conceptual Understanding of Conductors and Insulators 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Electricity & Magnetism / Electrostatics / Conductors and Insulators
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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
New Directions for Physics Education Research: A Broad Perspective Analysis 
  
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Graduate/Professional
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General Physics / Physics Education Research
Education Foundations / Alternative Conceptions
Education Foundations / Research Design & Methodology
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M. Dancy and C. Henderson - Conference Proceedings
In this paper we introduce a framework that can be used to categorize instructional practices. We then use this framework to identify areas where mainstream Physics Education Research (PER) has embraced alternative ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2177046
American Journal of Physics
Conceptual development about motion and force in elementary and middle school students 
  
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Elementary School
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Education Foundations / Student Populations / Early Childhood
Classical Mechanics / General
General Physics / Physics Education Research
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Education Foundations / Cognition / Cognition Development
Education Foundations / Student Characteristics / Ability
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D. Dykstra and D. Sweet, Am. J. Phys., 77 (5), 468-476 (2009).
Methods of physics education research were applied to find what kinds of changes in 4th, 6th, and 8th grade student understanding of motion can occur and at what age. Such findings are necessary for the physics ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3090824
Probing Student Reasoning and Intuitions in Intermediate Mechanics: An Example With Linear Oscillations 
  
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Upper Undergraduate
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Classical Mechanics / General
Oscillations & Waves / Oscillations / Springs and Oscillators
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B. Ambrose - Conference Proceedings
The study of linear oscillations—including simple harmonic, damped, and driven oscillations—is not only fundamental in classical mechanics but lies at the heart of numerous applications in the engineering ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2508684
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
Laboratory-tutorial activities for teaching probability 
  
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General Physics / Mathematical Physics
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Quantum Physics / Probability, Waves, and Interference
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M. Wittmann, J. Morgan, and R. Feeley, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 2 (2) (2006).
We report on the development of students’ ideas of probability and probability density in a University of Maine laboratory-based general education physics course called Intuitive Quantum Physics. Students ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.2.020104
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
Impact of animation on assessment of conceptual understanding in physics 
  
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M. Dancy and R. Beichner, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 2 (1) (2006).
This study investigates the effect of computer animation on assessment and the conditions under which animation may improve or hinder assessment of conceptual understanding in physics. An instrument was developed ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.2.010104
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
Student understanding of rotational and rolling motion concepts 
  
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Classical Mechanics / Rotational Dynamics
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L. Rimoldini and C. Singh, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 1 (1) (2005).
We investigated the common difficulties that students have with concepts related to rotational and rolling motion covered in the introductory physics courses. We compared the performance of calculus- and algebra-based ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.1.010102
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