Using technology to understand student ‘misconceptions’ in classical mechanics

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Naylor, Wade, Chrysostomou, Anna, Carleschi, Emanuela and Cornell, Alan. (2022). Using technology to understand student ‘misconceptions’ in classical mechanics. In Teaching Innovation for the 21st Century: Showcasing UJ Teaching and Learning 2021 pp. 94-101 Jacana Media.

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Authors	Naylor, Wade, Chrysostomou, Anna, Carleschi, Emanuela and Cornell, Alan
Abstract	Interest in physics pedagogy in the arena of physics education research (PER) has grown in recent decades, with a particular emphasis on confronting the ‘misconceptions’ incoming undergraduate students generally carry (Martin-Blas et al. 2020; Bani-Salameh 2016a; Bani-Salameh 2016b) and explored more recently in Crogman, et al. 2018; Wells et al. 2019 and Scott & Schumayer 2021. To identify these ‘misconceptions’, a number of multiple-choice diagnostic tools have been developed for various disciplines, e.g. the Calculus Concept Inventory (CCI) (Epstein 2013) and the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) (Halloun & Hestenes 1985; Hestenes et al. 1992; Hestenes 1998). With the aid of an online testing platform, we deployed the latter, in order to evaluate student ‘misconceptions’ in classical mechanics.
Keywords	Education; Physics; Students; misconceptions
Page range	94-101
Year	01 Jan 2022
Book title	Teaching Innovation for the 21st Century: Showcasing UJ Teaching and Learning 2021
Publisher	Jacana Media
Place of publication	South Africa
ISBN	978-1-99-122016-5
Open access	Published as non-open access
Research or scholarly	Research
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Output status	Published
Print	2022
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Accepted	16 Feb 2024
Deposited	26 Feb 2024
Additional information	© University of Johannesburg, 2022. All rights reserved.

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