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    Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding

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    Authors
    Yeo, Shelley
    Zadnik, Marjan
    Date
    2001
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Yeo, Shelley and Zadnik, Marjan. 2001. Introductory thermal concept evaluation: Assessing students' understanding. The Physics Teacher. 39 (8): pp. 496-504.
    Source Title
    The Physics Teacher
    DOI
    10.1119/1.1424603
    ISSN
    0031-921X
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35265
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    We describe a pen and paper instrument designed to provide a measure of a range of student beliefs about thermal phenomena. The trial version, administered to 478 high school and university students aged 15–18 years, was able to distinguish belief changes in two populations, year 11 and first-year university physics students. We have used the revised instrument as a pre-test and post-test for evaluating students’ conceptual change following instruction. The instrument, called the Thermal Concept Evaluation, is appended.

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