Making sense of how students make sense of mechanical waves Export

@article{citeulike:4462311, abstract = {We have investigated student difficulties with mechanical waves and used the idea of mental models to organize our findings. Mental models describe the analogies and guidelines used to come to understand a topic. We find that individual students use both correct and incorrect mental models to make sense of a single physical situation.}, author = {Wittmann, Michael C. and Steinberg, Richard N. and Redish, Edward F.}, citeulike-article-id = {4462311}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHTEAH000037000001000015000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aip.org/link/?PTE/37/15}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0207042v1}, journal = {The Physics Teacher}, keywords = {physics, resources}, number = {1}, pages = {15--21}, posted-at = {2009-05-04 20:07:01}, priority = {2}, publisher = {AAPT}, title = {Making sense of how students make sense of mechanical waves}, url = {http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHTEAH000037000001000015000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes}, volume = {37}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4462311 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4462311 N2 - We have investigated student difficulties with mechanical waves and used the idea of mental models to organize our findings. Mental models describe the analogies and guidelines used to come to understand a topic. We find that individual students use both correct and incorrect mental models to make sense of a single physical situation. IS - 1 JF - The Physics Teacher EP - 21 TI - Making sense of how students make sense of mechanical waves PB - AAPT VL - 37 SP - 15 KW - physics KW - resources AU - Wittmann, Michael AU - Steinberg, Richard AU - Redish, Edward PY - 1999/// UR - http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHTEAH000037000001000015000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes ER -