{"id":332866,"date":"2016-12-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=b234367ccdef0a658a5de3fa6f550c3d"},"modified":"2016-12-07T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T00:00:00","slug":"learning-about-a-level-physics-students-understandings-of-particle-physics-using-concept-mapping-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=332866","title":{"rendered":"Learning about A level physics students\u2019 understandings of particle physics using concept mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This paper describes a small-scale piece of research using concept mapping to elicit A level<br \/>\nstudents\u2019 understandings of particle physics. Fifty-nine year 12 (16- and 17 year-old) students from<br \/>\ntwo London schools participated. The exercise took place during school physics lessons. Students<br \/>\nwere instructed how to make a concept map and were provided with 24 topic-specific key words.<br \/>\nStudents\u2019 concept maps were analysed by identifying the knowledge propositions they represented,<br \/>\nenumerating how many students had made each one, and by identifying errors and potential<br \/>\nmisconceptions, with reference to the specification they were studying. The only correct statement<br \/>\nmade by a majority of students in both schools was that annihilation takes place when matter and<br \/>\nantimatter collide, although there was evidence that some students were unable to distinguish<br \/>\nbetween annihilation and pair production. A high proportion of students knew of up, down and strange<br \/>\nquarks, and that the electron i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper describes a small-scale piece of research using concept mapping to elicit A level<br \/>\nstudents\u2019 understandings of particle physics. Fifty-nine year 12 (16- and 17 year-old) students from<br \/>\ntwo London schools participated. The exercise took pla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-332866","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\/332866","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}