dc.contributor.author | Eriksson, Moa | |
dc.contributor.author | Euler, Elias | |
dc.contributor.author | Linder, Cedric | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-05T08:52:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-05T08:52:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Eriksson, M. et al. (2022). The variation of university physics students’ experience of plus and minus signs in 1d vector-kinematics revisited. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/18117295.2022.2091327 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1811-7295 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/18117295.2022.2091327 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/7702 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article revisits and expands upon a previous phenomenographic study characterising the qualitatively different ways in which South African undergraduate physics students may experience the use of +/– signs in one-dimensional kinematics (1DK). We find the original categorisation as applicable for interpreting Swedish university-level students’ responses to 1DK questions. However, by way of a typology of potential learning outcomes associated with +/– signs in 1DK, our review of the topic reveals that the original study’s treatment misses the implications of +/– signs related to time rate of change and graphical shape. We also add to the description of students’ experience of +/– signs in 1DK by incorporating ideas from the Variation Theory of Learning and by focusing on some of the aspects of +/– signs in 1DK that were underemphasized in the original study. Our analysis thus provides a template for physics educators to support students’ conceptual understanding of sign conventions in vector kinematics. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis Group | en_US |
dc.subject | Astrophysics | en_US |
dc.subject | Algebraic signs | en_US |
dc.subject | Physics students | en_US |
dc.subject | Higher education | en_US |
dc.subject | Undergraduate | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.title | The variation of university physics students’ experience of plus and minus signs in 1d vector-kinematics revisited | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |