learning pathways

Atomic Physics in Upper Secondary School: Layers of Conceptions in Induvidual Cognitive Structure

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2003
Resource type: 
book
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Section from book "Science Education Research in the Knowledge-Based Society", Kluwer Academic Publishers

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A learning pathway in high-school level quantum atomic physics

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1998
Resource type: 
peer reviewed article
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International Journal of Science Education, vol. 20, issue 9, pages 1075-1088

In this paper, one student's learning process in a course on quantum atomic physics in grade 13 of a German gymnasium (secondary school) is described. The course lasted 16 weeks for a total of approximately 80 lessons. The aim of the present study is to elaborate the student's cognitive system for atomic physics as a hypothetical pragmatic model to describe, analyse and explain his thinking and learning sequence of several meta-stable conceptions of the atom, starting from a planetary model.