P. Klein, A. Müller, and J. Kuhn Department of Physics, Physics Education Research Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 46, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Faculty of Science/Physics Section and Institute of Teacher Education, University of Geneva Pavillon d’Uni Mail, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 40, CH-1211 Geneve, Switzerland (Received 22 September 2016; revised manuscript ...

Charles Henderson, Chandra Turpen, Melissa Dancy, and Tricia Chapman Department of Physics and Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 19050, USA Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, USA Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Department of Education, Nazareth Colleg...

We review three important ideas concerning physics education. First, what do surveys from the workplace indicate about the relative importance in student education of scientific process knowledge, personal skills, and conceptual physics knowledge? Second, what are the characteristics of student minds that need to acquire this knowledge and these skills? Finally, what can we do with physics lear...

(2) Thus from the jungle wars of the 1980's, educational researchers, including those concerned with teaching, emerged into a sunlit plain a happy and productive arena in which the strengths of all three paradigms (objective-quantitative, interpretive-qualitative, and critical-theoretical) were abundantly realized, with a corresponding decrease in the harmful effects of their respective inadequ...

This study investigated the kinds of dialogues utilized by Open University students while studying an intermediate level physics course. Research objectives were twofold: to document what dialogue types, mediated through which resources, were (1) generally utilized by students as they learned; and (2) were specifically utilized by students to overcome conceptual difficulties. It was found that ...

Mazur Group (Harvard University). A Harvard research group that includes education research as well as physics research. The site offers links to ongoing research into peer instruction, gender and physics, the value of classrooms demonstrations, and technology and education. The link below is to the portion of their website on Learning Science. http://mazur.harvard.edu/education/educationmenu.p...

One of the ways of promoting students’ interest in physics is the performance of experiments. This paper is concerned to experiments which could be used in physics classes taught at basic education. A questionnaire was created to determine to what extent basic school physics teachers are willing to incorporate experiments into their teaching method repertoire. The questionnaire underwent a pilo...

This thesis summarizes a series of investigations into how multimedia can be designed to promote the learning of physics. The ‘design experiment’ methodology was adopted for the study, incorporating different methods of data collection and iterated cycles of design, evaluation, and redesign. Recently much research has been conducted on learning with multimedia, usually from a cognitive science ...

In this work, the authors analyze the video game genres’ features and investigate potential mappings to specific didactic approaches in the context of Physics education. To guide the analysis, the authors briefly review the main didactic approaches for Physics and identify qualities that can be projected into game features. Based on the characteristics of the didactic approaches each video game...