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Jia, Zehao; Ding, Lin; Zhang, Ping – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We used a sequential synthesis problem to investigate novice teachers' conceptual difficulties in hydrodynamics. Twenty-one new secondary level physics teachers from various regions of China, who had been in service for no more than 2 years, participated in the study. Each participant completed a written hydrodynamics problem consisting of four…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Beginning Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Concept Formation
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Hu, Qintong; Son, Ji-Won; Hodge, Lynn – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
To improve mathematics achievement, students' errors should be treated as a source to stimulate their understanding of the conceptual and procedural basis of their errors. The study investigated 20 Chinese and 20 U.S. high school teachers' interpretations and responses to a student's errors in solving a quadratic equation. The teachers' responses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematical Concepts