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Balta, Nuri; Japashov, Nursultan; Abdulbakioglu, Mustafa; Oliveira, Alandeom W. – Physics Education, 2020
Student cognition in response to intuitive and counterintuitive stimuli in the school science curriculum is not well understood. To address this issue, this study examines high school students' cognitive responses to three counterintuitive physics problems. Our analysis reveals that student success in arriving at counter-intuitive physical…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Physics
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Masin, Sergio Cesare; Crivellaro, Francesco; Varotto, Diego – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2014
The research field of intuitive physics focuses on discrepancies between theoretical and intuitive physical knowledge. Consideration of these discrepancies can help in the teaching of elementary physics. However, evidence shows that theoretical and intuitive physical knowledge may also be congruent. Physics teaching could further benefit from…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Intuition
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Taber, Keith S.; Garcia-Franco, Alejandra – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
This article explores 11- to 16-year-old students' explanations for phenomena commonly studied in school chemistry from an inclusive cognitive resources or knowledge-in-pieces perspective that considers that student utterances may reflect the activation of knowledge elements at a range of levels of explicitness. We report 5 themes in student…
Descriptors: Physics, Chemistry, Learning Processes, Intuition