Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This research presents an investigation of how students dynamically construct knowledge in a new situation.In particular, this work focuses on the contexts of light and optics, and examines the dynamic construction of an understanding of wavefront aberrometry.The study began with clinical interviews designed to elicit students' prior knowledge about light, basic optics, and vision; the data were analyzed phenomenographically to obtain student models of understanding and examine the possible model variations.The results indicate that students have a significant number of resources in this subject area, though some are incomplete or less useful than others. CHAPTER 1 -IntroductionThis research project is a combination of two different yet associated driving forces: first, the desire to help students build conceptual knowledge and to successfully apply that knowledge in a wide range of contexts, and second, the shift in physics education research to go beyond misconceptions and study in more detail the ways in which students construct knowledge.The remainder of this chapter provides an overview of the research study including the scope and rationale for the study, an overview of the research strategy, broader impacts of the study, and a description of the remainder of this dissertation. Research Scope and Rationale
Author: Dyan L. McBride
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1645052940