Reappraising the relationships between physics students’ mental models and predictions: An example of heat convection
Although prediction is claimed to be a prime function of mental models, to what extent students can run their mental models to make predictions of physical phenomena remains uncertain. The purpose of this study, therefore, was first to investigate 30 physics students’ mental models of heat convectio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.010119 |