Improving Early Optics Instruction Using a Phenomenological Approach: A Field Study

Previous research has shown that phenomenological approaches in early optics education might be superior to traditional model-based instruction based on the light ray realm with regards fostering students’ conceptual understanding of basic topics. However, it remains open date which learning difficulties students encounter when being introduced following a approach—in particular, comparison are widespread among via instruction. With this article, we contribute closing gap: We report results quasi-experimental field study N=189 secondary school students. used ten items adapted from literature pre-posttest design for an in-depth exploration conceptions introductory topics acquired by N=89 teaching-learning sequence and compare these ones N=100 peers who participated covering same content The substantiate earlier findings according teaching fruitful endeavour education, comes about image formation converging lenses.