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Entropy in High Schools: using students spontaneous reasoning and aspects of the concept evolution

From aInside of constructivist perspective, the research in question intended to evaluate the evolution of High School pupils' learning evolution, when placed in contact with the concept of entropy in daily situations, throughby activities and didactic texts. Our strategy washas been based on the students' previous conceptions and on the use of the evolutionary process of conceptual development and construction as background to put the developed knowledge. The data was been collected from a group of ten students through pre and post after-tests and we analyzed them us theing contents analysis. technique to analyzed it.Like conclusions, it was possible to verify an improvement was seen ion those concepts inof the majority of the students under consideration.

Physics education; Entropy; Constructivism; Conceptual Evolution


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