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...

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Main Authors: Richard N. Steinberg, Sebastien Cormier, Adiel Fernandez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2009-09-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.5.020104

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