Chapter 4: THE PHYSICAL SETTING
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Children’s Conceptual Understanding of Forces
and Equilibrium
C. Terry and others
Children’s Dynamics
Roger Osborne
Concepts in Force and Motion
Nanjundiah Sadanand and Joseph Kess
A Constructivist Approach to Astronomy in the
National Curriculum
John Baxter
The Everyday Perspective and Exceedingly Unobvious
Meaning
Charles R. Ault, Jr
Force Concept Inventory
David Hestenes and others
Getting the Facts Straight
Jim Minstrell
Gravity--Don’t Take it for Granted
Michael D. Watts
Let Us Go Back to Nature Study
Dorothy L. Gabel
Misconceptions and the Qualitative Method
Dori Ridgeway
The Museum as Science Teacher
Charles R. Ault, Jr.
Secondary Students’ Conceptions of the
Conduction of Heat: Bringing Together Scientific and Personal Views
Elizabeth Engel Clough and Rosalind Driver
Students’ Conceptions of Ideas in Mechanics
John K. Gilbert and others
Students’ Concepts of Force: The Importance of
Understanding Newton’s Third Law
David E. Brown
Students’ Use of the Principle of Energy
Conservation in Problem Situations
Rosalind Driver and Lynda Warrington
A Survey of Some Children’s Ideas about Force
D. M. Watts and A Zylbersztajn
Teacher Predictions versus Actual Student Gains
Alan Lightman and Philip Sadler
Teaching for Conceptual Change: Confronting
Children’s Experience
Bruce Watson and Richard Konicek
Understanding the Particulate Nature of Matter
Dorothy L. Gabel and others
When Students Don’t Know They Don’t Know
Janet F. Eaton and others