Changing the Metacognitive Orientation of a Classroom Environment to Stimulate Metacognitive Reflection Regarding the Nature of Physics Learning
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| Title: | Changing the Metacognitive Orientation of a Classroom Environment to Stimulate Metacognitive Reflection Regarding the Nature of Physics Learning |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Thomas, Gregory P. |
| Source: | International Journal of Science Education. 2013 35(7):1183-1207. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 25 |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | High Schools |
| Descriptors: | Physics, Metacognition, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Educational Change, Learning Processes, Guidelines, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Measures (Individuals), Self Efficacy, Interviews, Classroom Environment, Science Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Mixed Methods Research |
| Geographic Terms: | Canada |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09500693.2013.778438 |
| ISSN: | 0950-0693 |
| Abstract: | Problems persist with physics learning in relation to students' understanding and use of representations for making sense of physics concepts. Further, students' views of physics learning and their physics learning processes have been predominantly found to reflect a "surface" approach to learning that focuses on mathematical aspects of physics learning that are often passed on via textbooks and lecture-style teaching. This paper reports on a teacher's effort to stimulate students' metacognitive reflection regarding their views of physics learning and their physics learning processes via a pedagogical change that incorporated the use of a representational framework and metaphors. As a consequence of the teacher's pedagogical change, students metacognitively reflected on their views of physics and their learning processes and some reported changes in their views of what it meant to understand physics and how they might learn and understand physics concepts. The findings provide a basis for further explicit teaching of representational frameworks to students in physics education as a potential means of addressing issues with their physics learning. (Contains 2 tables.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 45 |
| Entry Date: | 2014 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1011943 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Problems persist with physics learning in relation to students' understanding and use of representations for making sense of physics concepts. Further, students' views of physics learning and their physics learning processes have been predominantly found to reflect a "surface" approach to learning that focuses on mathematical aspects of physics learning that are often passed on via textbooks and lecture-style teaching. This paper reports on a teacher's effort to stimulate students' metacognitive reflection regarding their views of physics learning and their physics learning processes via a pedagogical change that incorporated the use of a representational framework and metaphors. As a consequence of the teacher's pedagogical change, students metacognitively reflected on their views of physics and their learning processes and some reported changes in their views of what it meant to understand physics and how they might learn and understand physics concepts. The findings provide a basis for further explicit teaching of representational frameworks to students in physics education as a potential means of addressing issues with their physics learning. (Contains 2 tables.) |
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| ISSN: | 0950-0693 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09500693.2013.778438 |
