Exploring Student Difficulties with Buoyancy

Wagner, Doris J.; Carbone, Elizabeth; Lindow, Ashley

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Exploring Student Difficulties with Buoyancy

written by Doris J. Wagner, Elizabeth Carbone, and Ashley Lindow

Our research group is developing a standardized fluids assessment, covering buoyancy and pressure. Understanding buoyancy requires a battery of skills and knowledge, and we have designed questions to probe understanding of background concepts such as density, incompressibility, and volume of fluid displaced. In this paper we will describe some of the buoyancy-related assessment questions, the misconceptions they probe, and the preliminary results from the beta version of the assessment.

Physics Education Research Conference 2013
Part of the PER Conference series
Portland, OR: July 17-18, 2013
Pages 357-360

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Published: February 1, 2014

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Foundations - Alternative Conceptions - Assessment = Conceptual Assessment = Instruments Fluid Mechanics - Statics of Fluids = Density and Buoyancy = Static Pressure	- Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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Rights Holder:: American Association of Physics Teachers
DOI:: 10.1119/perc.2013.pr.077
PACSs:: 01.40.Fk; 01.40.G-
Keywords:: Archimedes’ Principle, Buoyancy, Education Research, Fluids, PERC 2013
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Record Updated:: January 31, 2014 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: December 16, 2013
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