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Students’ Preconceptions in Astrophysics — How to break them down?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

Corina Lavinia Toma Open the ORCID record for Corina Lavinia Toma [Opens in a new window]
Corina Lavinia Toma*
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Computer Science High School Tiberiu Popoviciu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania email: corlavtoma@gmail.com
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Abstract

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At any stage of education, the students begin to study astrophysics with previous incorrect preconceptions that impedes the understanding of new scientific notions. It is a waste of time to add new concepts on a “weak basis”. In this case the duty of any teacher is to spend more time to carefully remove preconceptions from students’ minds. In the present article there are reviewed some of the most common preconceptions of the students when they are learning astrophysics with the right solutions to break them down using some active teaching methods, especially experiments and models.

Keywords

Educationgravitational lensingsolar windstellar color
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 15 , Symposium S367: Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy , December 2019 , pp. 83 - 86
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Astronomical Union

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