Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding

We describe a pen and paper instrument designed to provide a measure of a range of student beliefs about thermal phenomena. The trial version, administered to 478 high school and university students aged 15–18 years, was able to distinguish belief changes in two populations, year 11 and first-year u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yeo, Shelley, Zadnik, Marjan
Format: Journal Article
Published: The American Association of Physics Teachers 2001
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35265