A study of social representations of quantum physics held by high school students through numerical and written word association tests

dc.creator	Thaís Rafaela Hilger
dc.creator	Marco Antonio Moreira
dc.date	2013-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:11:29Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:11:29Z
dc.identifier	1850-6666
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e008116c19314a6da68fd1930bfc9409
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14418
dc.description	This paper presents findings of a preliminary research on possible social representations of quantumtheory that might being shared by high school students. Its purpose was to identify and tocharacterize these social representations through numerical and written word association tests(NWAT and WWAT) and multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques of analysis. Theunderstanding of such representations might provide hints of the influence of the media on thestudents’ ideas regarding scientific concepts. In school learning, these ideas are part of the students’prior knowledge, which, when these ideas act as subsumers, can play a key role, not necessarily inthe sense of helping, in the occurrence of meaningful learning of quantum mechanics.
dc.language	Spanish
dc.language	English
dc.language	Portuguese
dc.publisher	Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
dc.relation	http://reiec.sites.exa.unicen.edu.ar/
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1850-6666
dc.source	Revista Electrónica de Investigación en Educación en Ciencias , Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 52-61 (2013)
dc.subject	quantum physics
dc.subject	social representations
dc.subject	meaningful learning.
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	A study of social representations of quantum physics held by high school students through numerical and written word association tests
dc.type	article