Coupling Ray Diagrams and Real World Phenomena in Optics
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This project builds on previous research by physics educators and               cognitive scientists and addresses an important instructional problem in        science teaching:  how to facilitate the process by which students learn        to connect real world phenomena with scientific representations of the          phenomena.  The domain of focus is geometrical optics and the main              population of interest consists of pre-service elementary school                teachers.                                                                                                                                                       The project activities cover two major areas.  The investigations:  (1)         will develop a general template which will be used for specifying an            individuals's mental model about optical phenomena.  The template will          be used to describe how the physics expert's and students' mental models        differ, and also to describe changes in a student's mental model during         various phases of instruction.  (2) will develop and investigate the            effectiveness of an instructional strategy, based upon the psychological        principle of simultaneous encoding of information, to facilitate                students' ability to connect ray diagrams and optical phenomena.  In            this strategy ray diagram representations will be simultaneously                presented with the visual demonstration of the related optical                  phenomenon.  Finally, the investigators will develop a videodisc with a         myriad of examples of optical phenomena, and will use the text and              graphics overlay capabilities of a computer videodisc system to                 implement the instructional strategy.
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