The importance of language in students' reasoning about heat in thermodynamic processes

DT Brookes, E Etkina - Conceptual metaphor and embodied …, 2018 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Researchers believe that the way that students talk, specifically the language that they use,
can offer awindow into their reasoning processes. Yet the connection between what …

ARE ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTIONS DEPENDENT ON RESEARCHERS'METHODOLOGY AND DEFINITION?: A REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES RELATED TO …

CL Wong, HE Chu, KC Yap - International Journal of Science and …, 2016 - Springer
Currently, there is no agreement among scientists and science educators on whether heat
should be defined as a “process of energy transfer” or “form of energy.” For example …

A typology of undergraduate textbook definitions of 'heat'across science disciplines

CA Doige, T Day - International Journal of Science Education, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The physics and chemistry education literature has grappled with an appropriate definition
for the concept of heat for the past four decades. Most of the literature promotes the view that …

Characterizations of student, instructor, and textbook discourse related to basis and change of basis in quantum mechanics

KS Serbin, M Wawro, R Storms - Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021 - APS
Communities develop social languages in which utterances take on culturally specific
situated meanings. As physics students interact in their classroom, they can learn the …

Students' Problem-Solving Ability in Temperature and Heat Concepts

MRA Taqwa, R Faizah, L Rivaldo… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This study aims to determine the problem-solving ability on the topic of temperature and
heat. This research is a survey research. The subject of this study consisted of 118 …

Exploring students' descriptions of mutation from a cognitive perspective suggests how to modify instructional approaches

FF Zhao, A Schuchardt - CBE—Life Sciences Education, 2019 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Prior studies have shown that students have difficulty understanding the role of mutation in
evolution and genetics. However, little is known about unifying themes underlying students' …

Prospective elementary teachers' analysis of children's science talk in an undergraduate physics course

DB Harlow, LH Swanson, VK Otero - Journal of Science Teacher …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated how prospective teachers used physics content knowledge when analyzing
the talk of elementary children during special activities in an undergraduate physics content …

Resourceful students: Engaging students in active and systematic investigations in laboratories involving thermal phenomena

CR Samuelsson - 2023 - diva-portal.org
Resourceful students : Engaging students in active and systematic investigations in laboratories
involving thermal phenomena diva-portal.org Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet Simple search …

Reasoning with thermal cameras: Framing and meaning-making in naturalistic settings in higher education

R Samuelsson - 2020 - diva-portal.org
Abstract Samuelsson, R. 2020. Reasoning with thermal cameras: framing and meaning-
making in naturalistic settings in higher education. 192 pp. Uppsala. In this Licentiate thesis …

Using latent class analysis to analyze children's responses to the question,“What is a day?”

DB Harlow, LH Swanson, K Nylund‐Gibson… - Science …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding what children know is paramount to planning effective science instruction;
however, in any classroom, the students hold a variety of ideas. Representing these …