Deep learning in introductory physics : exploratory studies of model-based reasoning

• Main Author: Lattery, Mark J. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
• Series: Science and engineering education sources.
• Subjects: Physics > Textbooks.; Science > Physics > General.; Education.; Physics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806609550
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-630-8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations

Deep Learning in Introductory Physics: Exploratory Studies of Model-Based Reasoning is concerned with the broad question of how students learn physics in a model-centered classroom. The diverse, creative, and sometimes unexpected ways students construct models, and deal with intellectual conflict, p...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I. Research framework
• Chapter 1. Scientific models
• Chapter 2. Modeling in the classroom
• Chapter 3. An unsolved puzzle
• Part II. Research on student model formation and development in mechanics
• Chapter 4. Case study i. Anda and rick
• Chapter 5. Case study ii. Juan
• Chapter 6. Case study iii. chris and laura
• Chapter 7. Case study iv. Kristy and mia
• Chapter 8. Model-based reasoning
• Part III. Research extensions
• Chapter 9. A search for cardinal models
• Chapter 10. Student conceptions of free fall
• Chapter 11. Pathways to formal knowledge
• Chapter 12. Perspectives
• References
• About the author
• Index.