This project will examine and describe to what extent Swedish physics teachers in uppersecondary school test their students on conceptual understanding within the chapter ofmechanics. To achieve this, we compared The Force Concept Inventory, a test developed tomeasure students understanding of mechanics, and a well-established digital tool calledKunskapsmatrisen. Previous studies in Physics Education Research (PER), have found that asignificant proportion of students lack understanding of the most basic concepts of mechanics.The purpose of this project is to enhance the knowledge of learning physics and contribute tothe research on to high-school students’ ability to understand different kind of concepts withinmechanics. Bloom’s taxonomy will be used as a framework for the analysis of the test itemsavailable on Kunskapsmatrisen, to determine whether they test conceptual understanding ornot. We conclude that only a small proportion of the test items available on Kunskapsmatrisenactually test conceptual understanding. Furthermore, this project also includes an English to Swedish translation of the Force Concept Inventory. Key words: Physics education research, conceptual understanding, Bloom’s taxonomy,mechanics, upper secondary school Project in didactics of physics, 15.0 credits, 2022Department of Astronomy and Physics Education Research, Uppsala University
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-502793 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Joel, Ozolins, Felix, Langueville |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Fysikundervisningens didaktik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | FYSAST ; FYSPROJ1317 |
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