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RESEARCH PAPER
Validation of a learning progression for sound propagation in air
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Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, CEFET-MG, Timóteo, BRAZIL
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Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, UIDEF, Lisboa, PORTUGAL
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Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, UFBA, Salvador, BRAZIL
Online publication date: 2024-06-11
Publication date: 2024-07-01
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2024;20(7):em2464
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
This study was conducted with 37 11th grade secondary school students and had as its focus to
verify the different levels of sophistication in students’ explanations regarding the propagation of
sound in air. A pre- and a post-test were conducted after a one-month intervention, focusing on
learning about sound propagation in air. Data analysis allowed for comparing the progressions in
the sophistication of students’ explanations and validating the proposed categorical structure of
the hierarchical levels of learning progressions (LPs). The validity was confirmed by the consistency
of the category hierarchy, assessed in terms of the difficulty coefficients of LPs levels, which were
distinct in the two tests but maintained the established order in the construct maps. In the pre-test, the more sophisticated levels of LPs were not elucidated, but after instruction, in the post-test, there were explanations at all levels. The results also reveal the importance of instruction
focused on LPs, so that students can present more sophisticated explanations, and their utility for
future investigations using this approach.
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