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Aspects of Secondary Students’ Ideas about Light
The aim of this Children’s Learning in Science Project (CLIS) research study was to describe aspects of secondary school students’ ideas about light and to set these in the context of results from other studies in the area and of the history of ideas about light and sight.
Contents of the full report
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Students’ orientations towards light phenomena
Section 3: The history of ideas about light and vision
Section 4: Review of literature on children’s ideas about the nature of light
Section 5: The results of a nationally administered written task on light and sight
Section 6: Students’ ideas about light and sight: the local study
Section 7: Reflection of light and image formation
Section 8: Schematic diagrams
Section 9 Summary of implications for teaching and learning
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