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Journal Article
Modeling Magnetism With the Floating Paper Clip
By Sarah Braden, Lauren Barth-Cohen, Sara Gailey, and Tamara Young
Journal Article
By Rundong Jiang, Chenglu Li, Xudong Huang, Shannon Sung, and Charles Xie
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possi...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies o...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is des...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize th...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students generally identify fo...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine wh...
By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically des...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students reco...
By Page Keeley