Eradicating physics Misconceptions Using the Conceptual Change Method
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Authors
Podolner, Aaron S.
Issue Date
2000
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Thesis
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en_US
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The student teaching experience surprised me in many ways. Actually it was my own
misconceptions about misconceptions that proved to be so enlightening. I thought
wrongly that my biggest obstacle as a teacher would be to prove that physics is in fact fun
and worth studying. I also thought that my students’ parents’ attitudes towards physics
could greatly change my students ability to learn, but that also turned out to not be the
case. What I did discover was that preconceptions about specific topics in physics were
my greatest enemy. Dissolving these myths is no easy task, and traditional methods just
don’t do the job. Essentially, students have to confront their beliefs and reconcile the
differences between their notions and the truth in order for them to truly learn a new
topic. The Conceptual Change Method is one way to do this, and research has shown that
all the aspects of this method are much better than the traditional lecture style of teaching
physics.
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