Category: PER-projects-doctoral-completed
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Merten Dahlkemper (2020 – 2024) The Use of Feynman Diagrams in Physics Education: Opportunities, Challenges, Practices
Merten Dahlkemper (2020 – 2024) The Use of Feynman Diagrams in Physics Education: Opportunities, Challenges, Practices This thesis explores the potential of Feynman diagrams as educational tools in upper secondary physics education, specifically for teaching particle physics concepts. It is set within the design-based research (DBR) framework, meaning learning materials incorporating Feynman diagrams were designed
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Sarah Zöchling (2019 – 2023) Students’ types of interest in physics revisited
Sarah Zöchling (2019 – 2023) Students’ types of interest in physics revisited Fostering students’ interest in physics is an essential part of physics education and has been found to correlate with their achievement and career choices. One important past empirical study, the IPN interest study, introduced students’ types of interest in physics. Yet, past studies
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Anja Kranjc Horvat (2018 – 2022) Particle physics in high-school education: what should students and teachers learn?
Anja Kranjc Horvat (2018 – 2022) Particle physics in high-school education: what should students and teachers learn? Elementary particle physics is a contemporary topic in science that is slowly being integrated into high-school education. These new implementations are challenging teachers’ professional knowledge worldwide. Therefore, physics education research is faced with two important questions, namely, how
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Julia Woithe (2014 – 2020) Designing, measuring and modelling the impact of the hands-on particle physics learning laboratory S’Cool LAB at CERN
Julia Woithe (2014 – 2020) Designing, measuring and modelling the impact of the hands-on particle physics learning laboratory S’Cool LAB at CERN Effects of student and laboratory characteristics on high-school students’ cognitive and affective outcomes: In the framework of this PhD project, S’Cool LAB, a new out-of-school hands-on learning laboratory for high-school students was developed
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Alexandra Jansky (2016 – 2019) Development of a teaching concept on learning about radioactivity: physics phenomena based on randomness and the benefits of new devices
Alexandra Jansky (2016 – 2019) Development of a teaching concept on learning about radioactivity: physics phenomena based on randomness and the benefits of new devices Randomness and probability play a big role in many areas of science. For example, probabilistic statements can only describe quantum mechanical phenomena, such as the decay of an unstable atomic
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Sarah Aretz (2014 – 2018) Development and evaluation of a test instrument to investigate students’ prior knowledge and conceptions in cosmology
Sarah Aretz (2014 – 2018) Development and evaluation of a test instrument to investigate students’ prior knowledge and conceptions in cosmology Cosmology deals with the development of the universe as a whole. Cosmological discoveries in theory and observation have therefore formed our modern scientific worldview. Transferring a modern worldview through science teaching is a frequent
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Jeff Wiener (2013 – 2017) Elementary particle physics in early physics education
Jeff Wiener (2013 – 2017) Elementary particle physics in early physics education Elementary particle physics is a fundamental topic in science, and in particular in science education. However, in most countries, the chapter of particle physics is not necessarily fully integrated in the physics curriculum. Indeed, current physics education research is faced with the important