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Safadi, Rafi; Safadi, Ekhlass; Meidav, Meir – Physics Education, 2017
This study compared students' learning in troubleshooting and problem solving activities. The troubleshooting activities provided students with solutions to conceptual problems in the form of refutation texts; namely, solutions that portray common misconceptions, refute them, and then present the accepted scientific ideas. They required students…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Group Discussion, Comparative Analysis
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Mota, A. R.; Lopes dos Santos, J. M. B. – Physics Education, 2014
Students' misconceptions concerning colour phenomena and the apparent complexity of the underlying concepts--due to the different domains of knowledge involved--make its teaching very difficult. We have developed and tested a teaching device, the addition table of colours (ATC), that encompasses additive and subtractive mixtures in a single…
Descriptors: Color, Misconceptions, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Zamfirov, Milen; Saeva, Svetoslava; Popov, Tsviatko – Physics Education, 2007
This paper presents a new strategy to be implemented in Bulgarian schools in teaching physics and astronomy to students with impaired hearing at grades 7 (13-year-old students) and 8 (14-year-old students). The strategy provides effective education for students with hearing disabilities in mainstream schools as well as for those attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Physics, Sign Language