Learning about a Level Physics Students' Understandings of Particle Physics Using Concept Mapping

Autor/in	Gourlay, H.
Titel	Learning about a Level Physics Students' Understandings of Particle Physics Using Concept Mapping
Quelle	In: Physics Education, 52 (2017) 1, Artikel 014001 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-9120
DOI	10.1088/1361-6552/52/1/014001
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; High School Students; Secondary School Science; Knowledge Level; Concept Mapping; Nuclear Physics; Misconceptions; Scientific Concepts; United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Wissensbasis; Concept Map; Atomphysik; Kernphysik; Missverständnis
Abstract	This paper describes a small-scale piece of research using concept mapping to elicit A level students' understandings of particle physics. Fifty-nine year 12 (16- and 17 year-old) students from two London schools participated. The exercise took place during school physics lessons. Students were instructed how to make a concept map and were provided with 24 topic-specific key words. Students' concept maps were analysed by identifying the knowledge propositions they represented, enumerating how many students had made each one, and by identifying errors and potential misconceptions, with reference to the specification they were studying. The only correct statement made by a majority of students in both schools was that annihilation takes place when matter and antimatter collide, although there was evidence that some students were unable to distinguish between annihilation and pair production. A high proportion of students knew of up, down and strange quarks, and that the electron is a lepton. However, some students appeared to have a misconception that everything is made of quarks. Students found it harder to classify tau particles than they did electrons and muons. Where students made incorrect links about muons and tau particles their concept maps suggested that they thought they were mesons or quarks. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01