4–8 Jul 2022
Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana
Europe/Ljubljana timezone
Proceedings submission deadline extended to 31 January 2023

Analyzing high school students' difficulties with wave optics using a knowledge-in-pieces approach

5 Jul 2022, 13:00
50m
Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana

Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana

Kardeljeva ploščad 16, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Poster Lab Work and Experiments in Physics Education Poster Session: LAB & MDR

Speaker

Karolina Matejak Cvenic (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

Description

A series of semi-structured demonstration interviews about the basic phenomena of wave optics were conducted with Croatian high school students after their regular school instruction on this topic. We analyze the identified students’ difficulties with the interference and diffraction of light on double-slit, single-slit and optical grating from the knowledge-in-pieces perspective.

How would you like to present your contribution? Live in Ljubljana (time slot to be allotted based on the programme)
Target education level (primary) Upper-secondary education

Authors

Karolina Matejak Cvenic (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb) Lana Ivanjek (Faculty of Physics, Physics Education Research, Technische Universität Dresden) Maja Planinic (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb) Ana Susac (Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb) Katarina Jelicic (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb) Martin Hopf (University of Vienna, Austrian Educational Competence Centre Physics)

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