Phenomenographic approach to understanding students' learning in physics education

J Guisasola, E Campos, K Zuza, G Zavala - Physical Review Physics Education …, 2023 - APS
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical
Examination.] Inquiring about students' learning and their difficulties understanding the …

Analysis and comparison of students' conceptual understanding of symmetry arguments in Gauss's and Ampere's laws

E Campos, E Hernandez, P Barniol, G Zavala - Physical Review Physics …, 2023 - APS
Identifying students' difficulties in understanding Gauss's and Ampere's laws is important for
developing educational strategies that promote an expertlike understanding of the field …

Phenomenographic analysis and comparison of students' conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic fields and the principle of superposition

E Campos, E Hernandez, P Barniol, G Zavala - Physical Review Physics …, 2021 - APS
There are studies of students' understanding of the concept of the electric field, the magnetic
field, and the use of the superposition principle that have contributed to the creation of both …

Inventory for the assessment of representational competence of vector fields

S Küchemann, S Malone, P Edelsbrunner… - Physical Review Physics …, 2021 - APS
Representational competence is essential for the acquisition of conceptual understanding in
physics. It enables the interpretation of diagrams, graphs, and mathematical equations, and …

Phenomenographic analysis of students' conceptual understanding of electric and magnetic interactions

E Hernandez, E Campos, P Barniol, G Zavala - Physical Review Physics …, 2022 - APS
Studying students' problem-solving abilities in physics education research has consistently
shown that novices focus on a problem's surface features rather than its physical principles …

Recognition and conversion of electric field representations: The case of electric field lines

E Campos, K Zuza, J Guisasola, G Zavala - Physical Review Physics Education …, 2023 - APS
We conducted a study with introductory and upper-division physics students in a Mexican
university to learn how students independently recognize the electric field's main …

Using the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism to investigate progression in student understanding from introductory to advanced levels

A Maries, MJ Brundage, C Singh - Physical Review Physics Education …, 2022 - APS
The Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) is a multiple-choice survey that
contains a variety of electricity and magnetism concepts from Coulomb's law to Faraday's …

Empirical analysis of physics test instruments to measure graphical representation abilities in “temperature and heat” topics

A Aprilia, WSBD Dwandaru - Science Education International, 2024 - icaseonline.net
This study focused on developing physics test instruments for senior high school students on
the topics of temperature and heat. The study aimed to determine (i) the quality of the test …

Implementing the use of Energy Bar Charts in the framework of an Early Physics approach

V Bologna, SP Leban, F Longo… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Introductory college courses use the Multiple Representations (MR) method for
teaching/learning energy processes. It helps students understand concepts which are …

Investigating and Improving Student Understanding of Conductors and Insulators

LM Santana, C Hickman, J Bilak, C Singh - Education Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Concepts involving conductors and insulators are challenging at all levels of instruction.
Here, we summarized an investigation of the difficulties that introductory students have …