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Physical Review Physics Education Research
written by Kim Krijtenburg-Lewerissa, Henk J. Pol, Alexander Brinkman, and Wouter R. van Joolingen
In order to investigate students' misunderstandings of potential wells and tunneling, a conceptual knowledge test was administered to Dutch secondary school students after they were taught about quantum mechanics. A frequency analysis of responses to the multiple choice questions (n = 98) and coding of the responses to the open-ended questions and explanations (n = 13) shows that Dutch secondary school students experience difficulties similar to those reported for undergraduate students. The students' underlying difficulties were analyzed using a typology of learning impediments. Results of this analysis show that students have difficulty connecting knowledge of potential wells and tunneling to their prior knowledge. Students mainly have creative and epistemological learning impediments, which cause eight incorrect synthetic models.
Physical Review Physics Education Research: Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 010132
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10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010132
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high school physics concept inventory, high school quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics concept inventory, quantum tunneling
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K. Krijtenburg-Lewerissa, H. Pol, A. Brinkman, and W. van Joolingen, , Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 16 (1), 010132 (2020), WWW Document, (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010132).
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K. Krijtenburg-Lewerissa, H. Pol, A. Brinkman, and W. van Joolingen, Secondary school students’ misunderstandings of potential wells and tunneling, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 16 (1), 010132 (2020), <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010132>.
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Krijtenburg-Lewerissa, K., Pol, H., Brinkman, A., & van Joolingen, W. (2020, June 1). Secondary school students’ misunderstandings of potential wells and tunneling. Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 16(1), 010132. Retrieved May 16, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010132
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Krijtenburg-Lewerissa, K, H. Pol, A. Brinkman, and W. van Joolingen. "Secondary school students’ misunderstandings of potential wells and tunneling." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 16, no. 1, (June 1, 2020): 010132, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010132 (accessed 16 May 2024).
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Krijtenburg-Lewerissa, Kim, Henk J. Pol, Alexander Brinkman, and Wouter R. van Joolingen. "Secondary school students’ misunderstandings of potential wells and tunneling." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 16.1 (2020): 010132. 16 May 2024 <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010132>.
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