In the past decades, much work has been done in science education on large–scale curriculum
development, ranging from a “structure–of–the–discipline” approach to STS. At the same …

<p>The Chernobyl accident has been used as an opportunity to study pupils’ ideas about
radioactivity, in relation to the information presented in the mass‐media. Our study produced a …

This article deals with the problem of the proper interpretation of discourse between students
and teachers in classrooms. First, several interpretations of a concrete classroom protocol …

Dit artikel geeft een overzicht van recente opbrengsten van dat deel van het Utrechts
natuurkundedidactisch onderzoek dat gericht is op de inzichtelijke ontwikkeling van natuurkundige …

Administered 3 questionnaires to 35 radiation experts to determine their experiences with
lay-ideas (LYIs) about radiation, particularly with regard to how such ideas might have …

Over the past twenty five years a number of trends in physics education at the secondary level
have developed. These include (1) more emphasis on technological and social aspects of …

In current approaches to teaching the topic of radioactivity, explanations in microscopic (nuclear)
terms are predominant. In fact, one of the reasons for including the topic in the …

… EIJKELHOF HMC & LIJNSE PL (1992a). Experiences with research and development to …
LIJNSE PL (1992). Pupils and teachers operating from different frames of refe¬ rence: a …

The influence of radiative non-equilibrium on the occupation of excited metal states in
flames can be investigated by measuring the deviation ΔT of line reversal (or excitation) …

The experimental temperature dependence of alkali-N 2 quenching cross sections is explained
semi-quantitatively by a simple theoretical model, based on an ionic intermediate state, …