Physics entrance exams and main student problems

J 2025

Physics entrance exams and main student problems

MUSILOVÁ, Pavla

Základní údaje

Originální název

Physics entrance exams and main student problems

Název česky

Přijímací zkoušky z fyziky a problémy studentů

Autoři

MUSILOVÁ, Pavla (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Physics Education, 2025, 1361-6552

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Článek z olasti fyzikálního vzdělávání, autor Pavla Musilová

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/adc8eb

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-12345678901

Klíčová slova česky

fyzikální vzdělávání

Klíčová slova anglicky

physics education

Štítky

physics education

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 19. 4. 2025 13:17, Mgr. Pavla Musilová, Ph.D.

Anotace

ORIG CZ

V originále

In the contribution we present an analysis of the main problems faced by students in the entrance exams in physics to study physics at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno (MU). Every year, about 70 students from all over the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic are admitted to study physics and physics teaching at the Faculty of Science of MU (about a quarter of them are students from Slovak Republic). Therefore, the analysis of the results of the entrance examination in physics give a good overview of the level of physics teaching on Czech and Slovak (upper) secondary schools.(We believe that these experiences are similar elsewhere). We present here an example of a typical entrance exam assignment and process the results of solving open and closed problems from individual disciplines of secondary school physics and point out key problems leading to erroneous solutions. The assignment includes tasks from all eight basic areas of secondary school physics: Mechanics, Oscillations and waves, Thermics/thermodynamics and molecular physics, Electricity and magnetism, Optics, Physics of the microcosm, Astrophysics, Relativity. The aim of the assignment and subsequent analysis of the results of student solutions is to find out to what extent the physics education and textbooks at secondary schools contribute to the development of students physical thinking. The results of student solutions are commented for all monitored areas of secondary school physics, special attention is paid to mechanics and physics of the microcosm (disciplines from the beginning and end of secondary school studies, respectively). At the end of the paper, we comment on the possible causes of the not very great success of students in solving tasks from some areas of physics. In addition to our own experience, we also use the opinions of cooperating secondary school teachers and our first semester students.

Česky

Příspěvek je zaměřen na analýzu hlavníchj problémů studentů u přijímacích zkoušek ke szudiu fyziky na PřF MU.

Citovat

MUSILOVÁ, Pavla. Physics entrance exams and main student problems. Physics Education. 2025, Volume 60, Number 3, s. 1-22. ISSN 1361-6552. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/adc8eb.

@article{2491803,
   author = {Musilová, Pavla},
   article_number = {Number 3},
   doi = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/adc8eb},
   keywords = {physics education},
   language = {eng},
   issn = {1361-6552},
   journal = {Physics Education},
   title = {Physics entrance exams and main student problems},
   url = {http://www.physics.muni.cz/~janam/index.php},
   volume = {Volume 60},
   year = {2025}
}

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 2491803
AU  - Musilová, Pavla
PY  - 2025
TI  - Physics entrance exams and main student problems
JF  - Physics Education
VL  - Volume 60
IS  - Number 3
SP  - 1-22
EP  - 1-22
SN  - 13616552
KW  - physics education
UR  - http://www.physics.muni.cz/~janam/index.php
N2  - In the contribution we present an analysis of the main problems faced by students in the entrance exams in physics to study physics at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno (MU). Every year, about 70 students from all over the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic are admitted to study physics and physics teaching at the Faculty of Science of MU (about a quarter of them are students from Slovak Republic). Therefore, the analysis of the results of the entrance examination in physics give a good overview of the level of physics teaching on Czech and Slovak (upper) secondary schools.(We believe that these experiences are similar elsewhere). We present here an example of a typical entrance exam assignment and process the results of solving open and closed problems from individual disciplines of secondary school physics and point out key problems leading to erroneous solutions. The assignment includes tasks from all eight basic areas of secondary school physics: Mechanics, Oscillations and waves, Thermics/thermodynamics and molecular physics, Electricity and magnetism, Optics, Physics of the microcosm, Astrophysics, Relativity. The aim of the assignment and subsequent analysis of the results of student solutions is to find out to what extent the physics education and textbooks at secondary schools contribute to the development of students physical thinking. The results of student solutions are commented for all monitored areas of secondary school physics, special attention is paid to mechanics and physics of the microcosm (disciplines from the beginning and end of secondary school studies, respectively). At the end of the paper, we comment on the possible causes of the not very great success of students in solving tasks from some areas of physics. In addition to our own experience, we also use the opinions of cooperating secondary school teachers and our first semester students.
ER  -

MUSILOVÁ, Pavla. Physics entrance exams and main student problems. \textit{Physics Education}. 2025, Volume 60, Number 3, s.~1-22. ISSN~1361-6552. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/adc8eb.

Přehled o publikaci