Physical Sciences Bibliography

Aguirre, Jose M. “Student Preconceptions About Vector Kinematics.” Physics Teacher 26 (1988): 212-216.

Andersson, Bjorn. “Pupils’ Conceptions of Matter and its Transformations.” Studies in Science Education 18 (1990): 53-85.

Arion, Douglas N., Kevin M. Crosby, and E. A. Murphy. “Case-Study Experiments in the Introductory Physics Curriculum.” The Physics Teacher 38 (2000): 373-376.

Arons, Arnold B. A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1990.

Barker, Vanessa. “Beyond Appearances: Students’ Misconceptions About Basic Chemical Ideas: A Report Prepared for the Royal Society of Chemistry.” London: Education Division, Royal Society of Chemistry. (2000) 1 March 2004 http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/.

Basili, Patricia A., and Julie P. Sanford. “Conceptual Change Strategies and Cooperative Group Work in Chemistry.” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 28 (1991): 293-304.

Bowen, Craig W., and Amy J. Phelps. “Demonstration-Based Cooperative Testing in General Chemistry: A Broader Assessment-of-Learning Technique.” Journal of Chemical Education 74 (1997): 715-719.

Cohen, Jeff, Meghan Kennedy-Justice, Sunny Pai, Carmen Torres, Rick Toomey, Ed DePierro, and Fred Garafalo. “Encouraging Meaningful Quantitative Problem Solving.” Journal of Chemical Education 77 (2000): 1166-1173.

DiSessa, Andrea. “Unlearning Aristotelian Physics: A Study of Knowledge Based Learning.” Cognitive Science 6 (1982): 37-75.

Coll, Richard K., and David F. Treagust. “Investigation of Secondary School, Undergraduate, and Graduate Learners’ Mental Models of Ionic Bonding.” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 40 (2003): 464-486.

Fischler, Helmut, and Michael Lichtfeldt. “Modern Physics and Students’ Conceptions.” International Journal of Science Education 14 (1992): 181-190.

Fishbein, Efraim, Ruth Stavy, and H. Ma-Naim. “The Psychological Structure of Naïve Impetus Conceptions.” International Journal of Science Education 11 (1989): 71-81.

Gabel, Dorothy L., and Diane M. Bunce. “Research on Problem Solving: Chemistry.” Handbook of Research on Science Teaching and Learning . Ed. D. L. Gabel. New York: Macmillian, 1994. 301-326. 

Goodwin, Alan “Questions that Science Teachers Find Difficult (II).” Revista de Educacion en Ciencias 4 (2003): 40-41.

Hackling, Mark, and Patrick J. Garnett. “Misconceptions of Chemical Equilibrium.” European Journal of Science Education 7 (1985): 205-214.

Heller, Patricia, and Kenneth Heller. Cooperative Group Problem Solving in Physics. University of Minnesota preprint, 1999.

Kalkanis, George, Pandora Hadzidaki, and Dimitrios Stavrou. “An Instructional Model for a Radical Conceptual Change Towards Quantum Mechanics Concepts.”  Science Education 87 (2003): 257-280.

Laburu, Carlos Eduardo, and Mansoor Niaz. “A Lakatosian Framework to Analyze Situations of Cognitive Conflict and Controversy in Students’ Understanding of Heat Energy and Temperature.” Journal of Science Education and Technology 11 (2002): 211-219.

Maloney, David P. “Research on Problem Solving: Physics.” Handbook of Research on Science Teaching and Learning. Ed. D. L. Gabel. New York: Macmillian, 1994. 327-354.

Manivannan, Kandiah, and David E. Meltzer. “Use of In-Class Physics Demonstrations in Highly Interactive Format.” Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, July 25-26, 2001. Ed. S. Franklin, J. Marx, and K. Cummings. Rochester, NY, 2001. 95-98.

McCullough, Laura, and David E. Meltzer. “Differences in Male/Female Response Patterns on Alternative-Format Versions of FCI items.” Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, July 25-26, 2001. Ed. S. Franklin, J. Marx, and K. Cummings. Rochester, NY, 2001. 103-106.

McDermott, Lillian C., Peter S. Shaffer, Mark L. Rosenquist, and the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington. Physics by Inquiry: An Introduction to Physics and the Physical Sciences. (2 volumes). New York:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1996.

McDermott, Lillian C., Peter S. Shaffer, and Mark D. Somers, “Research as a Guide for Teaching Introductory Mechanics: An Illustration in the Context of the Atwood’s Machine.” American Journal of Physics 62, 46-55 (1994).

Meltzer, David E. “Student Reasoning Regarding Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics in an Introductory Physics Course.” Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, July 25-26, 2001. Ed. S. Franklin, J. Marx, and K. Cummings. Rochester, NY, 2001. 107-110.

Meltzer, David E. “ The questions we ask and why: Methodological orientation in physics education research.” Proceedings of the 2003 Physics Education Research Conference Madison, WI, August 6-7, 2003. Eds. J. Marx, S. Franklin, and K. Cummings. New York: PERC Publishing, 2003.

Meltzer, David E., and Amy Woodland Espinoza. “Guided Inquiry: Let Students “Discover” the Laws of Physics for Themselves.” Science Scope 21:2 (1997): 28-31.

Meltzer, David E., and Kandiah Manivannan. “Promoting Interactivity in Physics Lecture Classes.” The Physics Teacher 34:2 (1996): 72-76.

Nguyen, Ngoc-Loan, and David E. Meltzer. “Initial Understanding of Vector Concepts Among Students in Introductory Physics Courses.” American Journal of Physics 71 (2003): 630-638.

Papageorgiou, George “Helping students distinguish between mixtures and chemical compounds.” Science Activities 39:2 (2002): 19-22.

Peterson, Raymond F., and David F. Treagust. “Grade 12 Students’ Misconceptions of Covalent Bonding and Structure.” Journal of Chemical Education 66 (1989): 459-460.

Savinainen, Antti, and Philip Scott. “Using the Force Concept Inventory to Monitor Student Learning and to Plan Teaching.” Physics Education 37 (2002): 53-58.

Snir, Joseph, and Carol Smith. “Constructing Understanding in the Science Classroom: Integrating Laboratory Experiments, Student and Computer Models, and Class Discussion in Learning Scientific Concepts.” Software Goes to School: Teaching for Understanding with new Technologies. Eds. D. N. Perkins, et. al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 233-254.

Taber, Keith S. “Responding to Alternative Conceptions in the Classroom.” School Science Review 84:308 (2003): 99-108.

Wandersee, James H., Joel J. Mintzes, and Joseph D. Novak. “Research on Alternative Conceptions in Science.” Handbook of Research on Science Teaching and Learning. Ed. D. L. Gabel. New York: Macmillian, 1994. 177-210.