D. Brookes and E. Etkina, Int. J. Sci. Educ., 37 (5-6), 759-779 (2015).
Researchers believe that the way that students talk, specifically the language that they use, can offer a window into their reasoning processes. Yet the connection between what…
Y. Abraham, M. Valentin, B. Hansen, L. Bauman, and A. Robertson, PERC 2021 Proceedings, 21-26.
Previous literature about students’ understanding of heat and temperature primarily emphasizes students’ misunderstandings of canonical physics concepts. In our study, we used a…
N. Crossette, M. Vignal, and B. Wilcox, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 17 (2), 020119 (2021).
Student learning in upper-division thermal physics has not been studied to the same extent as in other courses like electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. Studies addressing…
A. Alesandrini, T. Huynh, L. Bauman, and A. Robertson, PERC 2022 Proceedings, 37-43.
We identify three conceptual resources that introductory physics students in our sample commonly use when reasoning microscopically about thermal physics topics: 1) differences will…
H. Chu, D. Treagust, S. Yeo, and M. Zadnik, Int. J. Sci. Educ., 34 (10), 1509-1534 (2012).
The aims of this study were to determine the underlying conceptual structure of the thermal concept evaluation (TCE) questionnaire, a pencil-and-paper instrument about everyday…