#10406. From Learning Capacitance to Making Capacitors: the Missing Critical Sensemaking

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Abstract:
Motivated by often passingly brief textbook discussions of industrial capacitors, this study examines how students make sense of textbook descriptions to create an industrial rolled-up capacitor. The participants followed their textbook guidance and used the parallel-plate structure as a prototype to make a rolled-up capacitor. To better understand their reasoning, we randomly selected students for interviews from each of the higher-, middle-, and lower-achieving groups according to their course grades.
Keywords:
Capacitance; Content and context; Physics education; Reasoning

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