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Framing difficulties in quantum mechanics
- Source :
- Physical Review Physics Education Research, Vol 15, Iss 2, p 020146 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society, 2019.
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Abstract
- Students' difficulties in quantum mechanics may be the result of unproductive framing rather than a fundamental inability to solve the problems or misconceptions about physics content. Using the theoretical lens of epistemological framing, we applied previously developed frames to seek an underlying structure to the long lists of published difficulties that span many topics in quantum mechanics. Mapping descriptions of published difficulties into errors in epistemological framing and resource use, we analyzed descriptions of students' problem solving to find their frames, and compared students' framing to the framing (and frame shifting) required by problem statements. We found three categories of error: mismatches between students' framing and problem statement framing; inappropriate or absent shifting between frames; and insufficient resource activation within an appropriate frame.<br />Comment: Submitted to PhysRev-PER. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1605.08735, from which this paper split off
- Subjects :
- Science instruction
LC8-6691
Knowledge level
Physics
QC1-999
05 social sciences
Physics - Physics Education
ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
Physics::Physics Education
050301 education
General Physics and Astronomy
FOS: Physical sciences
Cognition
01 natural sciences
Special aspects of education
Education
Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
Quantum mechanics
Concept learning
0103 physical sciences
010306 general physics
0503 education
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24699896
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review Physics Education Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3cab8d8ccd77d7b4b0c92abac0f9c6ac