Research on the evaluation of college students'optical cognitive development based on mental model
Physical models are important thinking methods in physics learning.Exploring the structure and characteristics of students'mental models can improve the effectiveness of constructing physics models.In this study,the five-stage diagnostic test method was introduced to evaluate the light interference mental model of undergraduates majoring in physics,and the corresponding mental model understanding level was refined to deeply study the students'professional quality.The results showed that the understanding level of undergraduates'light interference mental model was quite dif-ferent and the degree of mental model construction was incomplete.There were 6 types of scientific mental models and 11 types of non-scientific mental models.However,the non-scientific mental mod-el had the trend of developing into a scientific mental model after the intervention of the light interfer-ence experiment.The more flexible understanding level of the mental model was,the stronger the confidence was,which was positively correlated.
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