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Pathare, Shirish; Huli, Saurabhee; Ladage, Savita; Pradhan, H. C. – Physics Education, 2018
The first law of thermodynamics involves several types of energies and many studies have shown that students lack awareness of them. They have difficulties in applying the law to different thermodynamic processes. These observations were confirmed in our pilot studies, carried out with students from undergraduate colleges across the whole of…
Descriptors: Physics, Thermodynamics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Pathare, Shirish; Huli, Saurabhee; Nachane, Madhura; Ladage, Savita; Pradhan, Hemachandra – Physics Education, 2015
Thermal equilibrium is a basic concept in thermodynamics. In India, this concept is generally introduced at the first year of undergraduate education in physics and chemistry. In our earlier studies (Pathare and Pradhan 2011 "Proc. episteme-4 Int. Conf. to Review Research on Science Technology and Mathematics Education" pp 169-72) we…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Thermodynamics, Scientific Concepts, College Science
Gafoor, K. Abdul; Greeshma, K. – Online Submission, 2014
In the context of growing empirical evidence to lack of clear understanding of the language of the science content, undesirable student outcomes including difficulty in learning science and a lack of interest with their science content area, and chemistry being particularly loaded with specialized terminology of its own, this study analyzed the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Chemistry, Textbook Content
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Kulkarni, Vasudeo Digambar; Tambade, Popat Savaleram – European Journal of Physics Education, 2013
In this study, a Thermodynamic Concept Test (TCT) was designed to assess student's conceptual understanding heat and thermodynamics at undergraduate level. The different statistical tests such as item difficulty index, item discrimination index, point biserial coefficient were used for assessing TCT. For each item of the test these indices were…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Thermodynamics, Undergraduate Study, Scientific Concepts