Investigating the quality of mental models deployed by undergraduate engineering students in creating explanations: The case of thermally activated phenomena
This paper describes a method aimed at pointing out the quality of the mental models undergraduate engineering students deploy when asked to create explanations for phenomena or processes and/or use a given model in the same context. Student responses to a specially designed written questionnaire ar...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2013-07-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.020101 |