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Using Students' Design Tasks to Develop Scientific Abilities 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Active Learning
General Physics / Physics Education Research
Education Foundations / Learning Theory
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X. Zou - Conference Proceedings
To help students develop the scientific abilities desired in the 21st century workplace, four different types of student design tasks—observation, verification, application, and investigation experiments—have ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820936
Understanding How Physics Faculty Use Peer Instruction 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Practices / Active Learning
Education Foundations / Teacher Characteristics
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C. Turpen and N. Finkelstein - Conference Proceedings
We investigate how the use of physics education research tools is spreading throughout faculty practice and examine efforts to sustain the use of these practices. We specifically focus on analyzing the local ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820934
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
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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
Investigating Students' Ideas about Wavefront Aberrometry 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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General Physics / Physics Education Research
Optics / The Eye
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Education Practices / Instructional Material Design
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D. McBride and D. Zollman - Conference Proceedings
We describe a qualitative study of student understanding of the functions of the human eye and the resources used in understanding wavefront aberrometry, a relatively new method of diagnosing vision defects. ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820918
Exploring the Intersections of Personal Epistemology, Public Epistemology, and Affect 
  
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Lower Undergraduate
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Education Foundations / Student Characteristics / Affect
General Physics / Physics Education Research
General Physics / Philosophy
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L. Lising - Conference Proceedings
This paper discusses an approach to exploring the divide between students' stances toward their own learning and their perceptions of what is productive for the scientific community (sometimes called “personal ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820916
Explanatory Framework for Popular Physics Lectures 
  
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S. Kapon, U. Ganiel, and B. Eylon - Conference Proceedings
Popular physics lectures provide a 'translation' that bridges the gap between the specialized knowledge that formal scientific content is based on, and the audience's informal prior knowledge. This paper presents ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820912
Students' Ideas of a Blender and Perceptions of Scaffolding Activities 
  
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Education Practices / Active Learning / Modelling
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J. Haynicz and S. Rebello - Conference Proceedings
Research has shown that students can be motivated to learn science by demonstrating its connection to everyday life. We investigated students' understanding of an everyday blender. We have previously reported ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820909
From Physics to Biology: Helping Students Attain All-Terrain Knowledge 
  
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M. Ruibal-Villasenor, E. Etkina, A. Karelina, D. Rosengrant, R. Jordan, and A. Van Heuvelen - Conference Proceedings
This paper is the third in a series of three describing a controlled study “Transfer of scientific abilities”. The study was conducted in a large-enrollment introductory physics course taught via Investigative ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820957
High school students' conceptual coherence of qualitative knowledge in the case of the force concept 
  
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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...
Design And Non-design Labs: Does Transfer Occur? 
  
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A. Karelina, E. Etkina, M. Ruibal-Villasenor, D. Rosengrant, A. Van Heuvelen, and C. Hmelo-Silver - Conference Proceedings
This paper is the second in the series of three describing a controlled study “Transfer of scientific abilities”. The study was conducted in a large-enrollment introductory physics course taught via Investigative ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2820956
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