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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2001
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| author | Yeo, Shelley Zadnik, Marjan |
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| description | 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 university physics students. We have used the revised instrument as a pre-test and post-test for evaluating students’ conceptual change following instruction. The instrument, called the Thermal Concept Evaluation, is appended. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-352652017-09-13T15:56:20Z Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding Yeo, Shelley Zadnik, Marjan power conversion educational courses thermal analysis teacher training physics education performance evaluation 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 university physics students. We have used the revised instrument as a pre-test and post-test for evaluating students’ conceptual change following instruction. The instrument, called the Thermal Concept Evaluation, is appended. 2001 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35265 10.1119/1.1424603 The American Association of Physics Teachers restricted |
| spellingShingle | power conversion educational courses thermal analysis teacher training physics education performance evaluation Yeo, Shelley Zadnik, Marjan Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding |
| title | Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding |
| title_full | Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding |
| title_fullStr | Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding |
| title_full_unstemmed | Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding |
| title_short | Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding |
| title_sort | introductory thermal concept evaluation: assessing students' understanding |
| topic | power conversion educational courses thermal analysis teacher training physics education performance evaluation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35265 |