Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light

Autor(en)

Karolina Matejak Cvenic, Lana Ivanjek, Maja Planinic, Katarina Jelicic, Ana Susac, Martin Hopf

Abstrakt

Polarization of light is one of the topics in the Croatian high school physics curriculum. It is taught in the final year of high school education. Twenty-seven Croatian high-school students (aged 18–19 years) were interviewed after regular instruction about their understanding of polarization of light and the model of light itself. This paper reports on the observed students’ reasoning strategies and conceptual difficulties. Some of the reported difficulties correspond with previously identified difficulties, but some new difficulties were also found. Students often based their explanations on the remembered but misinterpreted common schematic representations of polarization. Explanations seemed to be created on the spot, suggesting the absence of prior models of polarization.

Organisation(en)

Plattform für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften (AECCs), Experimentelle Grundausbildung und Hochschuldidaktik

Externe Organisation(en)

Technische Universität Dresden, University of Zagreb

Journal

Physical Review Physics Education Research

Band

17

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

1554-9178

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010136

Publikationsdatum

05-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

503013 Fachdidaktik Naturwissenschaften

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Education, Physics and Astronomy(all)

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/analyzing-high-school-students-reasoning-about-polarization-of-light(908bdcae-5492-46d6-ab7c-10398c118b8a).html