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Kaur, Tejinder | |||||||
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University of Western Australia - 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley - perth - Western Australia - Australia | |||||||
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ED1 |
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EInstein-First changing the paradigm of school physics education | |||||
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Abstract |
The Einstein-First project brings new curriculum materials to introduce and teach school students, from age 11 upwards, modern physics. Through models and analogies, we found that students easily grasped concepts, that adults, indoctrinated with Euclidean-Newtonian concepts, find difficult and confusing. This talk reviews the Einstein-First project, its methods, and results of studies. We show that most students demonstrated improved conceptual understanding and attitude to physics and that female student who entered the programme with lower scores than male students, increased their performance to be level with them We also found that the programme has a lasting impact on students’ conceptual understanding. |
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