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  title info:
    title: Microgenetic method as an approach for observing change
    sub title: exploring the development of students' conceptual structures in physics
  name:
    name part: Brock, Richard
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Place of publication not identified]
    publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This case study reports my experiences of a PhD project applying the microgenetic approach to study changes in students conceptual structures as they developed understanding of topics in physics. The microgenetic approach involves sampling (referring to the frequency of application of data collection probes) a phenomenon at a rate which is high compared to the rate of change of the phenomenon itself: a technique which can produce fine-grained descriptions of the processes of change. The study attempted to describe changes in five, 16- to 17-year-old physics students conceptual structures related to dynamics and electricity. The students were interviewed once a week, for 22 sessions, using semi-structured interviews containing a number of different probes including concept inventories and concept maps. Researchers using the microgenetic approach must make a number of significant methodological decisions: the choice of sampling rate, the choice of identical or non-identical repeated probes, the use of qualitative or quantitative data collection approaches, and the selection of an appropriate duration of sampling. This article presents a discussion of these issues in the context of my PhD study and some of the challenges of microgenetic research are considered. The particular ethical issues raised by high-frequency data collection are discussed, as well as the practical problems of transcribing and analyzing large quantities of data. Although the microgenetic technique presents significant challenges for the researcher, it is a powerful technique for understanding change as it occurs.
  note: Richard Brock.
  note: Title from content provider.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Conceptual structures (Information theory)
    topic: Research
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge representation (Information theory)
    topic: Research
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Structures conceptuelles
    topic: Recherche
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Représentation des connaissances
    topic: Recherche
    genre: Études de cas
  classification: Q387.2 .B76 2017
  classification: 003.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Research Methods
      part name: Cases. Part 2
  identifier: 9781473979727
  identifier: 1473979722
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  record info:
    record content source: COO
    record creation date: 170209
    record change date: 20240923170407.9
    record identifier: in00005495346
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng