Investigating students’ mental models and knowledge construction of microscopic friction. I. Implications for curriculum design and development
In this paper, we discuss the first phase of a multiphase study aimed at investigating the dynamics of students’ knowledge construction in the context of unfamiliar physical phenomenon—microscopic friction. The first phase of this study involved the investigation of the variations in students’ menta...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2011-07-01
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Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research |
Online Access: | http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.7.020102 |