Probing student understanding of scientific thinking in the context of introductory astrophysics
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 knowled...
Main Authors: | Richard N. Steinberg, Sebastien Cormier, Adiel Fernandez |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2009-09-01
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Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research |
Online Access: | http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.5.020104 |
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