TY - GEN
T1 - Analysis of shifts in Student's reasoning regarding electric field and potential concepts
AU - Meltzer, David E.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Students' reasoning regarding the relationships among electric fields, forces, and equipotential line patterns was explored using pre-and post-test responses to selected multiple-choice questions on the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism. Students' written explanations of their reasoning, provided both pre-and post-instruction, allowed additional assessment of the changes in their thinking. In particular, the data indicate that although students largely abandon an initial tendency to associate stronger fields with wider equipotential line spacing, many of them persist in incorrectly associating electric field magnitude at a point with the electric potential at that point.
AB - Students' reasoning regarding the relationships among electric fields, forces, and equipotential line patterns was explored using pre-and post-test responses to selected multiple-choice questions on the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism. Students' written explanations of their reasoning, provided both pre-and post-instruction, allowed additional assessment of the changes in their thinking. In particular, the data indicate that although students largely abandon an initial tendency to associate stronger fields with wider equipotential line spacing, many of them persist in incorrectly associating electric field magnitude at a point with the electric potential at that point.
KW - Electricity and magnetism
KW - Physics education
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U2 - 10.1063/1.2508721
DO - 10.1063/1.2508721
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957990434
SN - 9780735403833
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 177
EP - 180
BT - 2006 Physics Education Research Conference, PERC 2006
T2 - 2006 Physics Education Research Conference, PERC 2006
Y2 - 26 July 2006 through 27 July 2006
ER -