Speaker
Dr
Ignatius John
(Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)
Description
Abstract. This is the culmination of a long and systematics study on contextual variation of student responses in the context of dc circuit. We published the contextual variation from their Forced Choice Responses of eight electrically identical questions with fine grained variations that are trivial to a physicist, the productive and unproductive foothold ideas, then narrated the six micro-episodes from interviews that sketches the complex cognitive terrain of sense-making path that links complex everyday experience, mathematical reasoning and language connotations with the idealised physics model. We reflect on how the overall findings might be used in order to introduce a curriculum on simple DC circuits.
| Education level | Age over 18 (excluding teacher education) |
|---|---|
| Physics topic | Full curriculum |
| Research focus | Innovative instructional strategies and pathways |
| Research method | Mixed method (qualitative & quantitative) |
Author
Dr
Ignatius John
(Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)
Co-author
Prof.
Saalih Allie
(University of Cape Town)
