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Maurines, Laurence – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
This particular study is part of a research programme on the difficulties encountered by students when learning about wave phenomena in a three-dimensional medium in the absence or presence of obstacles. It focuses on how students reason in situations in which wave optics need to be used: diffraction of light by an aperture, imaging in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Optics, Light, Abstract Reasoning
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Viennot, L. – European Journal of Science Education, 1979
Investigates spontaneous reasoning of 709 French, Belgian, and British students in elementary dynamics using the relations between force, energy and motion as the study topic. Students were selected from the last year at secondary school to the third year at university. (HM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Science, Educational Research, Higher Education