Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Spring 2017 Joint Meeting of the Texas Section of AAPT, Texas Section of APS, and Zone 13 of the Society of Physics Students
Volume 62, Number 3
Thursday–Saturday, March 9–11, 2017; San Antonio, Texas
Session E1: Plenary Session II |
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Chair: William Waggoner, San Antonio College Room: McAllister Auditorium Auditorium |
Saturday, March 11, 2017 8:00AM - 8:15AM |
E1.00001: Welcome |
Saturday, March 11, 2017 8:15AM - 8:51AM |
E1.00002: Plenary: Misconceptions About Misconceptions: New Views on Teaching the Hard Stuff Invited Speaker: Stephanie Slater Despite the substantial body of ``misconceptions'' education research literature, the development of an actionable theory of conceptual change to mitigate students' misconceptions continues to be less than satisfying. What if a new, action-oriented cognitive model allowed us to deeply probe and more efficiently operate on students' learning difficulties in a fruitful manner? We propose that instead of binning all erroneous student thinking into a single misconceptions construct, which leads to prescribing only a single instructional strategy, perhaps it is time for a new model focusing on ``misconceptions'' as a mixture of at least four learning barriers: incorrect factual information, inappropriately applied mental algorithms (phenomenological primitives), insufficient cognitive structures (e.g. spatial reasoning), and affective/emotional difficulties. Each of these types of barriers can then be targeted more effectively by education researchers and be more efficiently addressed with an appropriately aligned instructional strategy. [Preview Abstract] |
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