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Existing research identifying common student ideas about forces focuses on students' misunderstandings, misconceptions, and difficulties. In this paper, we characterize student thinking in terms of resources, framing student thinking as continuous with formal physics. Based on our analysis of 2048 written responses to conceptual questions, we identify six common conceptual resources for understanding forces. We document context-sensitive patterns in resource activation, and we discuss limitations of our research based on the demographics of our sample.
Physical Review Physics Education Research: Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 010121
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=16461">Robertson, A, L. Goodhew, R. Scherr, and P. Heron. "University student conceptual resources for understanding forces." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, no. 1, (March 30, 2021): 010121.</a>
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A. Robertson, L. Goodhew, R. Scherr, and P. Heron, University student conceptual resources for understanding forces, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17 (1), 010121 (2021), <https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevphyseducres.17.010121>.
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Robertson, A., Goodhew, L., Scherr, R., & Heron, P. (2021, March 30). University student conceptual resources for understanding forces. Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 17(1), 010121. Retrieved October 7, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevphyseducres.17.010121
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Robertson, A, L. Goodhew, R. Scherr, and P. Heron. "University student conceptual resources for understanding forces." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17, no. 1, (March 30, 2021): 010121, https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevphyseducres.17.010121 (accessed 7 October 2024).
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Robertson, Amy, Lisa M. Goodhew, Rachel Scherr, and Paula R. L. Heron. "University student conceptual resources for understanding forces." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 17.1 (2021): 010121. 7 Oct. 2024 <https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevphyseducres.17.010121>.
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