Student Difficulties in Physics Information Center

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This is the homepage of the Student Difficulties in Physics Information Center. The site provides a list of documented student misconceptions and difficulties, along with questions that can be used in a classroom to discover if students have these misconceptions and/or difficulties. The web site links to research on each specific misconception. The material is divided into sections on position, velocity, acceleration, forces, graphs, and problem solving.

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - General Education Foundations - Alternative Conceptions General Physics - Physics Education Research	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Curriculum support = Instructor Guide/Manual - Reference Material

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2006 Tom Brown and Jeff Crowder
Keywords:: comprehension, naive conceptions, prior conceptions, student assessment, student misconceptions
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 1, 2006 by Ed Lee
Record Updated:: August 18, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 25, 2006
Other Collections:: The PSRC

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