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| Paper: |
Why Things Fall: What College Students Don't Understand About Gravity and How To Teach It Better |
| Volume: |
319, NASA Office of Space Science Education and Public Outreach Conference |
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384 |
| Authors: |
Shipman, H.L.; Brickhouse, N.W.; Dagher, Z.R.; Letts, W.J. |
| Abstract: |
An in-depth interview study of students in a college level astronomy course revealed that 19 of the 20 students only understood gravity as a phenomenon, not as a universal force or as an explanation for a phenomenon. We report the results of our in-depth study. As a result of this study, one of us (HS) developed a teaching sequence which, as our preliminary data shows, leads to an improved understanding of gravity. |
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