Students’ flexible use of ontologies and the value of tentative reasoning: Examples of conceptual understanding in three canonical topics of quantum mechanics
As part of a research study on student reasoning in quantum mechanics, we examine students’ use of ontologies, or the way students’ categorically organize entities they are reasoning about. In analyzing three episodes of focus group discussions with modern physics students, we present evidence of th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.010122 |