Conceptual development about motion and force in elementary and middle school students.

Autor/inn/en	Dykstra, D. I.; Sweet, D. R.
Titel	Conceptual development about motion and force in elementary and middle school students.
Quelle	In: American journal of physics, 77 (2009) 5, S. 468-476 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-9505; 1943-2909
DOI	10.1119/1.3090824
Schlagwörter	Fehlvorstellung; Bewegung (Phys); Kraft (Phys); Mechanik; Physik
Abstract	Methods of physics education research were applied to find what kinds of changes in 4th, 6th, and 8th grade student understanding of motion can occur and at what age. Such findings are necessary for the physics community to effectively discharge its role in advising and assisting pre-college physics education. Prior to and after instruction the students were asked to carefully describe several demonstrated accelerated motions. Most pre-instruction descriptions were of the direction of motion only. After instruction, many more of the students gave descriptions of the motion as continuously changing. Student responses to the diagnostic and to the activity materials revealed the presence of a third "snapshot" view of motion not discussed in the literature. The 4th and 6th grade students gave similar pre- instructional descriptions of the motion, but the 4th grade students did not exhibit the same degree of change in descriptions after instruction. Our findings suggest that students as early as 6th grade can develop changes in ideas about motion needed to construct Newtonian- like ideas about force. Students' conceptions about motion change little under traditional physics instruction from these grade levels through college level. © 2009 American Association of Physics Teachers.
Erfasst von	Arbeitsgruppe Didaktik der Physik, Universität Osnabrück
Update	2009/3