Questions About Physics: The Case of a Turkish 'Ask a Scientist' Website

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2010-03-01

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YERDELEN-DAMAR, Sevda
Eryılmaz, Ali

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The physics questions submitted to an 'ask a scientist' website were classified with respect to field of interest in physics, type of requested information in the question (factual, explanatory, etc.), and motivation for asking the question (applicative or non--applicative). In addition, differences in the number of females' and males' questions in these classifications were determined. Analysis of 995 physics questions submitted to the website indicated that modern physics questions (30.7%) were the most frequent while vibrations and wave motion questions (3.3%) were the least frequent. More than half of the questions (57.8%) were submitted to request factual information. Motivation to ask a question was inferred from the question, and was generally not related to direct and/or personal application. There were obvious differences in the number of questions asked by females and males: 84.7% of questions were asked by males while 15.3% were asked by females. However, significant gender differences were not observed in field of interest in physics, type of information requested in the question, and motivation for asking the question.

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Education

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38905

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RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-008-9119-4

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Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Article

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S. YERDELEN-DAMAR and A. Eryılmaz, “Questions About Physics: The Case of a Turkish ‘Ask a Scientist’ Website,” RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION, pp. 223–238, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38905.