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- Jenaro Guisasola
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- Tetyana Antimirova (Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University))
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- Ioannis Lefkos (Laboratory of informatics and Robotics in Education and Society, University of Macedonia)
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- Marilù Chiofalo (Department of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56126 Pisa, Italy)
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Dr Özden Şengül (Boğaziçi University)6/30/25, 1:50 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
College physics education aims to develop students’ knowledge of fundamental and interconnected physics concepts such as kinematics. Previous research has examined students’ understanding of kinematics in various studies addressing naïve beliefs, misconceptions, learning difficulties, and knowledge-in-pieces framework. This study explores students’ reasoning in kinematics based on resources...
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Ana Susac6/30/25, 2:10 PMCognitive science research (COGN)Oral presentation
Multiple representations are important in physics education as they help students connect concepts, visualize phenomena, and develop a deeper understanding through various modes of representation. However, students often struggle to interpret these different forms of information, which can hinder learning. We examined how pre-service teachers use multiple representations to understand...
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Jenaro Guisasola (DUAL ENGINEERING SCHOOL, Machine Tool Institute (IMH) Elgoibar, Spain and Donostia Physics Education Research Group (UPV/EHU).)6/30/25, 2:30 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
The teaching of the concept of energy, along with the processes of energy transformation and transfer in Newtonian mechanics, is a complex issue that continues to present significant pedagogical challenges. This study examines the epistemic practices of High School students (ages 16-18) in Argentina and Spain when solving problems related to energy transformation, transfer, and the application...
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Dr Beril Yılmaz Senem (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University), Dr Şule Kösem (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University)7/2/25, 9:00 AMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
The book trailer technique urges students to create a trailer that engages them deeply with a book. This study adapts this technique to physics education, focusing on the life of Marie Curie and raising awareness of the challenges women face in science. Pre-service science teachers read about Curie and prepared a 3-minute trailer. Data was collected through pre- and post-questions, evaluation...
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Margreet Docter7/2/25, 9:20 AMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
Our bachelor’s Nanobiology electronic instrumentation course has had limited success in fostering student’s conceptual development during, in their perception, tedious lab work. To improve students’ learning outcomes and their time-management abilities, we developed the Background, Anticipate, Simulate, Implement & Investigate, Compare & Conclude (BASIC) framework to reduce cognitive load: by...
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Caroline Wortmann7/2/25, 9:40 AMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
Because of a dropout-rate to 60% in physical degree programs in Germany, a students’ learning offer has been developed minimizing their individual school mathematical weaknesses which are one component that students quit their studies without graduation. While the first three degree’s semesters, the students test their maths competencies and get an individual learn path with exercices and...
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Tetyana Antimirova (Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University))7/2/25, 10:00 AMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
Concept maps are visual representations of the relationships between concepts. While a typical undergraduate physics course has a long list of concepts, the concept maps help to organize these ideas into a structure. Physics concept maps can be successfully used in introductory physics courses to visualize the concepts hierarchy and make complex and abstract ideas more comprehensible to...
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Kazi Aatish Imroz (The Ohio State University)7/3/25, 3:30 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
Within the U.S., inequities in primary and secondary education are often perpetuated at the collegiate level, notably in calculus-based introductory physics courses. In this presentation, I will discuss a national initiative aimed at addressing these disparities through a multi-pronged approach involving awareness-raising, curriculum development, and research. The curriculum development...
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Zeynep Tugba Kahyaoglu (TED Ronesans College)7/3/25, 3:50 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
This study aims to analyze the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) physics curriculum in terms of its inclusion of the behavioral profile characteristics of a scientific literate. For this purpose, the “behavioral profile domain” part of the Citizenship Scientific Literacy (CSL) framework was used for the content analysis of the written curriculum and textbook. Results found...
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Daša Červeňová (Comenius University)7/3/25, 4:10 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
The design of physics education and learning materials in Slovakia is mostly based on constructivist theory, which emphasises pupils’ experiences and prior knowledge as important parts of their learning. However, newer approaches are currently used globally. We applied selected principles from cognitive neuroscience to designing learning materials concerning fluid mechanics. Within this...
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Dr Ioannis Lefkos (Laboratory of informatics and Robotics in Education and Society, University of Macedonia)7/3/25, 4:30 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) presents significant challenges for educators due to limited experience and inadequate training. This study evaluates a 20-hour professional development program aimed at equipping Primary School teachers with IBL competencies, utilising the Go-Lab platform’s tools and methodology. Through data collected in pre-, mid- and post-training assessments, we claim that the...
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Floor Kamphorst (NTNU)7/4/25, 1:00 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
It is desirable that secondary students gain an understanding of special relativistic concepts such as length contraction. In a thought experiment-based task, 4 small groups of 11th grade students (11 students total) derived the concept of length contraction and applied it in new situations. These preliminary results indicate that thought experiment-based tasks can contribute to the...
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Dr Asmita Redij (Independent Researcher, Former Visiting Fellow, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai)7/4/25, 1:20 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
Research on Modeling-based Reasoning (MBR) in physics education indicates that students need to move towards understanding the procedural knowledge of building a conceptual model to explain real world phenomena, and validating this conceptual model against measurement models. We have developed a pedagogical model to teach MBR at the undergraduate level, using a simulation that walks students...
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Kübra Özmen7/4/25, 1:40 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
This study investigates the effectiveness of an acoustics course in improving first-year audiology students' conceptual understanding of mechanical waves. A pre-test/post-test design with 57 participants was employed, utilizing modified Mechanical Waves Conceptual Survey to assess understanding before and after the course. Results showed a significant improvement in students' conceptual...
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MARILU CHIOFALO (Department of Physics, University of Pisa), Prof. Maria Luisa Marilù Chiofalo (University of Pisa and INFN-Pisa), Marilu Chiofalo, Marilù Chiofalo (Department of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56126 Pisa, Italy)7/4/25, 2:00 PMInstructional strategies & Curricula (INSTR)Oral presentation
Many students in introductory physics courses struggle to form a conceptual understanding of physics, with additional challenges in short courses with no calculus. Tutorials by the University of Washington PEG are well-established tools to improve understanding and physics reasoning. To face these additional challenges, we introduced tutorials containing context-rich problems to a first-year...
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