Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about electromagnetic induction

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Katarina Jeličić
• Author: Maja Planinić; MBZ: 184526
• Author: Gorazd Planinšič
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; (Department of Physics)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: NATURAL SCIENCES; Physics
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogy

Abstract (english)

Electromagnetic induction is an important, yet complex, physics topic that is a part of Croatian high school curriculum. Nine Croatian high school students of different abilities in physics were interviewed using six demonstration experiments from electromagnetism (three of them concerned the topic of electromagnetic induction). Students were asked to observe, describe, and explain the experiments. The analysis of students’ explanations indicated the existence of many conceptual and reasoning difficulties with the basic concepts of electromagnetism, and especially with recognizing and explaining the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. Three student mental models of electromagnetic induction, formed during the interviews, which reoccurred among students, are described and analyzed within the knowledge-in-pieces framework.

• Keywords (english): electromagnetic induction; physics education; electromagnetism; high school
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Physical Review Physics Education Research
• Numbering: vol. 13, no. 1, 010112
• p-ISSN: 2469-9896
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.010112
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:839849
• Publication: 2017
• Document URL: https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.010112
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Public note: Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Received 29 November 2016. Published 27 February 2017.
• Created on: 2020-02-28 19:00:53