Web Blog Cites UMaine Physics, Astronomy Pedagogy Survey

The online editor of Physics Today magazine cited a pedagogy survey about physics and astronomy misconceptions held by students as a guide for how and when to offer sequential class segments in complex or abstract subject areas, including the distribution and identification of galaxies. The research allowed University of Maine physics and astronomy professors Andrej Favia and Neil Comins, with UMaine psychology professor Geoffrey Thorpe, to determine in which order to introduce different concepts to students depending upon age, from children and adolescents to adult students.

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