Analysis Of Shifts In Students' Reasoning Regarding Electric Field And Potential Concepts

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Students' reasoning regarding the relationships among electric fields, forces, and equipotential line patterns was explored using pre- and post-test responses to selected multiple-choice questions on the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism. Students' written explanations of their reasoning, provided both pre- and post-instruction, allowed additional assessment of the changes in their thinking. In particular, the data indicate that although students largely abandon an initial tendency to associate stronger fields with wider equipotential line spacing, many of them persist in incorrectly associating electric field magnitude at a point with the electric potential at that point.

Physics Education Research Conference 2006
Part of the PER Conference series
Syracuse, New York: July 26-27, 2006
Volume 883, Pages 177-180

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Foundations - Assessment - Cognition Electricity & Magnetism - Electric Fields and Potential = Electric Field	- Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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Mirror:: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2508721
Access Rights:: Available for purchase
Restriction:: © 2006 American Institute of Physics
DOI:: 10.1063/1.2508721
NSF Numbers:: 0206683; 0243258; 0311450
PACSs:: 01.40.Fk; 01.40.Ha
Keywords:: CSEM, PERC 2006, cognition, conceptual understanding, electric fields, electric forces, electric potential, electricity, magnetism
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 4, 2007 by Shawn Weatherford
Record Updated:: July 16, 2013 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 30, 2007
Other Collections:: The PER-Central

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