Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light

Polarization of light is one of the topics in the Croatian high school physics curriculum. It is taught in the final year of high school education. Twenty-seven Croatian high-school students (aged 18–19 years) were interviewed after regular instruction about their understanding of polarization of li...

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Autores principales:	Karolina Matejak Cvenic, Lana Ivanjek, Maja Planinic, Katarina Jelicic, Ana Susac, Martin Hopf
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Publicado:	American Physical Society 2021
Materias:	Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Physics QC1-999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:953b56a121654fa98895bdb7f5d01c742021-12-02T15:56:29ZAnalyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.0101362469-9896https://doaj.org/article/953b56a121654fa98895bdb7f5d01c742021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010136http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.010136https://doaj.org/toc/2469-9896Polarization of light is one of the topics in the Croatian high school physics curriculum. It is taught in the final year of high school education. Twenty-seven Croatian high-school students (aged 18–19 years) were interviewed after regular instruction about their understanding of polarization of light and the model of light itself. This paper reports on the observed students’ reasoning strategies and conceptual difficulties. Some of the reported difficulties correspond with previously identified difficulties, but some new difficulties were also found. Students often based their explanations on the remembered but misinterpreted common schematic representations of polarization. Explanations seemed to be created on the spot, suggesting the absence of prior models of polarization.Karolina Matejak CvenicLana IvanjekMaja PlaninicKatarina JelicicAna SusacMartin HopfAmerican Physical SocietyarticleSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691PhysicsQC1-999ENPhysical Review Physics Education Research, Vol 17, Iss 1, p 010136 (2021)
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description	Polarization of light is one of the topics in the Croatian high school physics curriculum. It is taught in the final year of high school education. Twenty-seven Croatian high-school students (aged 18–19 years) were interviewed after regular instruction about their understanding of polarization of light and the model of light itself. This paper reports on the observed students’ reasoning strategies and conceptual difficulties. Some of the reported difficulties correspond with previously identified difficulties, but some new difficulties were also found. Students often based their explanations on the remembered but misinterpreted common schematic representations of polarization. Explanations seemed to be created on the spot, suggesting the absence of prior models of polarization.
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Analyzing high school students’ reasoning about polarization of light

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