Quantum science in a nutshell: fostering students' functional understanding of models
Fostering students' understanding of models is a challenge. However, in particular for learning quantum physics an elaborate understanding of models is required. We investigated activities to foster students' functional thinking about (quantum) models in a synchronous online course. The re...
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| author | Malte S. Ubben Joaquin M. Veith Avraham Merzel Philipp Bitzenbauer |
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| description | Fostering students' understanding of models is a challenge. However, in particular for learning quantum physics an elaborate understanding of models is required. We investigated activities to foster students' functional thinking about (quantum) models in a synchronous online course. The results of an evaluation study (N = 59) showed that the participants improved in their quantum physical thinking about photons and had slightly improved their understanding of physics models in general. A correlation analysis indicates that there are no significant correlations between the students' general understanding of models in physics and their functional understanding of quantum models. Implications of our findings for both teaching and future research with regard to quantum physics education are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a6361904c62e4a72bddbda94427a10732023-06-27T14:51:31ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Education2504-284X2023-06-01810.3389/feduc.2023.11927081192708Quantum science in a nutshell: fostering students' functional understanding of modelsMalte S. Ubben0Joaquin M. Veith1Avraham Merzel2Philipp Bitzenbauer3Institut für Didaktik der Physik, WWU Münster, Münster, GermanyInstitut für Angewandte Mathematik und Informatik, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GermanyThe Seymour Fox School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IsraelPhysikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, GermanyFostering students' understanding of models is a challenge. However, in particular for learning quantum physics an elaborate understanding of models is required. We investigated activities to foster students' functional thinking about (quantum) models in a synchronous online course. The results of an evaluation study (N = 59) showed that the participants improved in their quantum physical thinking about photons and had slightly improved their understanding of physics models in general. A correlation analysis indicates that there are no significant correlations between the students' general understanding of models in physics and their functional understanding of quantum models. Implications of our findings for both teaching and future research with regard to quantum physics education are discussed.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1192708/fullquantum physicsmodel understandingonline courseevaluationphotons |
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| title | Quantum science in a nutshell: fostering students' functional understanding of models |
| title_full | Quantum science in a nutshell: fostering students' functional understanding of models |
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| title_short | Quantum science in a nutshell: fostering students' functional understanding of models |
| title_sort | quantum science in a nutshell fostering students functional understanding of models |
| topic | quantum physics model understanding online course evaluation photons |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1192708/full |
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