Physics – Physics Education
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009prstp...5b0104s&link_type=abstract
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, vol. 5, Issue 2, id. 020104
Physics
Physics Education
Research In Physics Education, Theory Of Testing And Techniques
Scientific paper
Common forms of testing of student understanding of science content can be misleading about their understanding of the nature of scientific thinking. Observational astronomy integrated with related ideas of force and motion is a rich context to explore the correlation between student content knowledge and student understanding of the scientific thinking about that content. In this paper, we describe this correlation in detail with a focus on a question about the relative motion of the Sun and the Earth. We find that high achieving high school students throughout New York City struggle with what constitutes scientific justification and thought processes, but can improve these skills tremendously in an inquiry-oriented summer astronomy-physics program.
Cormier Sebastien
Fernandez Adiel
Steinberg Richard N.
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