Titel
Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light
Autor*in
Karolina Matejak Cvenic
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
Autor*in
Lana Ivanjek
Faculty of Physics, Physics Education Research, Technische Universität Dresden
Autor*in
Maja Planinic
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
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Abstract
Polarization of light is one of the topics in the Croatian high school physics curriculum. It is taught in the final year of high school education. Twenty-seven Croatian high-school students (aged 18–19 years) were interviewed after regular instruction about their understanding of polarization of light and the model of light itself. This paper reports on the observed students’ reasoning strategies and conceptual difficulties. Some of the reported difficulties correspond with previously identified difficulties, but some new difficulties were also found. Students often based their explanations on the remembered but misinterpreted common schematic representations of polarization. Explanations seemed to be created on the spot, suggesting the absence of prior models of polarization.
Stichwort
General Physics and AstronomyEducation
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
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Titel
Physical Review Physics Education Research
Band
17
Ausgabe
1
ISSN
2469-9896
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Publication
American Physical Society (APS)
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
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