Fusion Confusion: Assessing What Students Know (and Don’t Know) About Stars

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #48.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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“A star is just a white dot in the sky!” Have you heard this from one of your students? Do they all think this? How can you know what other ideas they might have about stars? Determining what students understand about various topics is a developing area of astronomy education research. College nonscience majors in introductory astronomy courses were surveyed to find out what they know about star properties and formation; these ideas were later used to develop the “Star Properties Concept Inventory,” a multiple-choice instrument that can be used in such courses to investigate the extent to which your students hold these same ideas. In this talk, you’ll find out what students know about the various properties of stars; how stars form; and what we mean by “fusion confusion.”

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