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A particle physics course for high-school students
bout this Course This is the pilot version of a particle physics course for high-school students – a research-based product of CERN’s Physics Education Research team. It contains 16 chapters with videos and quizzes and covers a core curriculum that introduces you to fundamental questions, such as “What is a particle?” or “What are charges and interactions?”, leading to more applied questions, such as “What is a particle accelerator?” and “What is a particle detector?”.
Cognitive load theory suggests that students’ ability to absorb and understand new information is dependent on how well it is integrated into their existing mental models, which are frameworks built from prior knowledge ( Sweller et al., 1998). Studies show that introducing models as descriptions rather than definitive representations reduces the risk of misconceptions and helps students grasp the tentative nature of scientific knowledge ( Ornek, 2008). Indeed, decades of empirical research have shown that students have significant difficulties in establishing an adequate understanding of a particle model ( Adbo & Taber, 2009; Andersson, 1990; Ferk et al., 2003; Harrison & Treagust, 1996; Novick & Nussbaum, 1981).
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