{"id":137537,"date":"2015-10-28T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=14b52fe6df2f92e5d30f911333ca1548"},"modified":"2015-10-28T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:00:00","slug":"the-influence-of-instructional-interactions-on-students-mental-models-about-the-quantization-ofphysical-observables-a-modern-physics-course-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=137537","title":{"rendered":"The influence of instructional interactions on students\u2019 mental models about the quantization of\r\nphysical observables: a modern physics course case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental models are coherently organized knowledge structures used to explain phenomena. They interact<br \/>\nwith social environments and evolve with the interaction. Lacking daily experience with phenomena,<br \/>\nthe social interaction gains much more importance. In this part of our multiphase study, we<br \/>\ninvestigate how instructional interactions influenced students\u2019 mental models about the quantization<br \/>\nof physical observables. Class observations and interviews were analysed by studying students\u2019<br \/>\nmental models constructed in a modern physics course during an academic semester. The research<br \/>\nrevealed that students\u2019 mental models were influenced by (1) the manner of teaching, including<br \/>\ninstructional methodologies and content specific techniques used by the instructor, (2) order of the<br \/>\ntopics and familiarity with concepts, and (3) peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental models are coherently organized knowledge structures used to explain phenomena. They interact<br \/>\nwith social environments and evolve with the interaction. Lacking daily experience with phenomena,<br \/>\nthe social interaction gains much more importance&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}