Students' Impressions Concerning Optical Telescopes and Visible Astronomical Light

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written by Jeffrey Marx and Rebecca S. Lindell

We conducted post-instructional interviews with seventeen undergraduates from a general-science level astronomy class. Each interview lasted about fifteen-minutes, and students responded with a mix of verbal and graphical responses. The interview topics included roles of telescopes in astronomy, sources and properties of astronomical light, the relative importance of a telescope's magnification and light gathering ability, and light pollution. We concluded that students posses only a loose set of ideas regarding optical telescopes and visible astronomical light; however some potential common (mis)conceptualizations emerged.

Physics Education Research Conference 2003
Part of the PER Conference series
Madison, WI: August 6-7, 2003
Volume 720, Pages 69-72

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Published: September 9, 2004

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Astronomy - Astronomy Education = Education Research Education Foundations - Alternative Conceptions	- Lower Undergraduate - Upper Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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Mirror:: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1807256
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Restriction:: © 2003 AIP
DOI:: 10.1063/1.1807256
PACS:: 01.40.Fk
Keywords:: PERC 2003, alternative conceptions, astronomical telescopes, astronomy, student experiments, teaching, visible spectra
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created July 13, 2005 by Lyle Barbato
Record Updated:: April 11, 2024 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: September 9, 2004
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