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This paper describes a model of analogy, analogical scaffolding, which explains present and prior results of student learning with analogies. We build on prior models of representation, blending, and layering of ideas. Extending this model's explanatory power, we propose ways in which the model can be applied to design a curriculum directed at teaching abstract ideas in physics using multiple, layered analogies. We report on a recent empirical study that motivates this model. Students taught about electromagnetic waves in a curriculum that builds on the model of analogical scaffolding posted substantially greater gains pre- to postinstruction than students taught using a more traditional (non-analogy-based) tutorial (21% vs 7%).
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research: Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 010109
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=7560">Podolefsky, Noah S., and Noah Finkelstein. "Analogical scaffolding and the learning of abstract ideas in physics: An example from electromagnetic waves." Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 3, no. 1, (June 15, 2007): 010109.</a>
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N. Podolefsky and N. Finkelstein, , Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 3 (1), 010109 (2007), WWW Document, (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.010109).
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N. Podolefsky and N. Finkelstein, Analogical scaffolding and the learning of abstract ideas in physics: An example from electromagnetic waves, Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 3 (1), 010109 (2007), <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.010109>.
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Podolefsky, N., & Finkelstein, N. (2007, June 15). Analogical scaffolding and the learning of abstract ideas in physics: An example from electromagnetic waves. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 3(1), 010109. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.010109
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Podolefsky, Noah S., and Noah Finkelstein. "Analogical scaffolding and the learning of abstract ideas in physics: An example from electromagnetic waves." Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 3, no. 1, (June 15, 2007): 010109, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.010109 (accessed 1 May 2025).
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Podolefsky, Noah S., and Noah Finkelstein. "Analogical scaffolding and the learning of abstract ideas in physics: An example from electromagnetic waves." Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 3.1 (2007): 010109. 1 May 2025 <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.010109>.
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