13–16 Dec 2021
Europe/Zurich timezone
The papers for Springer have been published: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-48667-8 The papers for IOPP have also been published: https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/2727/1 .

A FRAMEWORK FOR DESCRIBING LEARNERS' MENTAL MODELS OF QUANTUM PHYSICS CONCEPTS

15 Dec 2021, 11:00
20m
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Presentations in Wroclaw 20. Contemporary physics and modern physics in schools and universities Parallel 7 - Wroclaw

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Philipp Bitzenbauer

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In this contribution, we report on a questionnaire study conducted with 280 physics students into learners' mental models in QP in order to uncover the mental models’ theoretical dimensions. Therefore, an established questionnaire on students' mental models on QP from literature was adopted. A principal component analysis of the survey data led to two independent dimensions describing the participants' mental models in QP, namely Fidelity of Gestalt and Functional Fidelity. Based on these results, we discuss a theoretical framework of mental models in QP against previous empirical studies from quantum physics education and derive implications for physics teacher education on QP.

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