TY - JOUR
T1 - Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light
AU - Cvenic, Karolina Matejak
AU - Ivanjek, Lana
AU - Planinic, Maja
AU - Jelicic, Katarina
AU - Susac, Ana
AU - Hopf, Martin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 authors.
PY - 2021/5/19
Y1 - 2021/5/19
N2 - Polarization of light is one of the topics in the Croatian high school physics curriculum. It is taught in the final year of high school education. Twenty-seven Croatian high-school students (aged 18–19 years) were interviewed after regular instruction about their understanding of polarization of light and the model of light itself. This paper reports on the observed students’ reasoning strategies and conceptual difficulties. Some of the reported difficulties correspond with previously identified difficulties, but some new difficulties were also found. Students often based their explanations on the remembered but misinterpreted common schematic representations of polarization. Explanations seemed to be created on the spot, suggesting the absence of prior models of polarization.
AB - Polarization of light is one of the topics in the Croatian high school physics curriculum. It is taught in the final year of high school education. Twenty-seven Croatian high-school students (aged 18–19 years) were interviewed after regular instruction about their understanding of polarization of light and the model of light itself. This paper reports on the observed students’ reasoning strategies and conceptual difficulties. Some of the reported difficulties correspond with previously identified difficulties, but some new difficulties were also found. Students often based their explanations on the remembered but misinterpreted common schematic representations of polarization. Explanations seemed to be created on the spot, suggesting the absence of prior models of polarization.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010136
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010136
M3 - Article
SN - 1554-9178
VL - 17
JO - Physical Review Physics Education Research
JF - Physical Review Physics Education Research
IS - 1
M1 - 010136
ER -