Optometry and Vision Science Research Guide: Optics

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Literature, student orientation to optics

Avudainayagam, K., & Avudainayagam, C. (2006). Simple experiments in optics for undergraduate optometry students using He-Ne laser. Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 89(1), 47–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2006.00009_3.x

Azmy, W. N., Damayanti, A. E., Kuswanto, H., & Susetyo, B. (2020). Learning optics with android-assisted comics: The impacts on students critical thinking. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1440(1), 12055. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1440/1/012055

Bakholdin, A., Voznesenskaya, A., Romanova, G., Ivanova, T., Tolstoba, N., Ezhova, K., Garshin, A., Trifonov, O., Sazonenko, D., & Ekimenkova, A. (2017). Online course Geometrical Optics for undergraduate students. 10452, 104521S-104521S – 7. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2266491

Baldwin, G., Snchez, R., Asmad, M., Tucto, K., & Gonzales, F. (2010). Simulation as a tool for teaching spectrographs optics to undergraduate physics students. 7652(1), 76522W-76522W – 10. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.871038

Chu, H.-E., & Treagust, D. F. (2014). Secondary Students’ Stable and Unstable Optics Conceptions Using Contextualized Questions. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 23(2), 238–251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-013-9472-6

Colin, P., Chauvet, F., & Viennot, L. (2002). Reading images in optics: Students’ difficulties and teachers’ views. International Journal of Science Education, 24(3), 313–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500690110078923

Colin, P., & Viennot, L. (2001). Using two models in optics: Students’ difficulties and suggestions for teaching. American Journal of Physics, 69(S1), S36–S44. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1371256

Crawford, G. P., & Suuberg, E. M. (2004). Optics-inspired student entrepreneurship. Optics and Photonics News, 15(8), 26–31. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.15.8.000026

Danvers, E. (2021). Individualised and instrumentalised? Critical thinking, students and the optics of possibility within neoliberal higher education. Critical Studies in Education, 62(5), 641–656. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2019.1592003

Dark ML, Merriweather CM. Student learning through independent projects in introductory optics. In: Vol 12297. SPIE; 2022:122972F-122972F-2. doi:10.1117/12.2635589

Donnelly, M. J., & Donnelly, J. (2019). Enlightening students: Optics applications in the math classroom. 11143. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2523561

Etkina, E., Planinsic, G., & Vollmer, M. (2013). A simple optics experiment to engage students in scientific inquiry. American Journal of Physics, 81(11), 815–822. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4822176

Fabris, J. L., & Muller, M. (2021). Teaching Experimental Optics for Undergraduate Students in COVID-19 Times. IMOC, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1109/IMOC53012.2021.9624832

Fatima, W. O., Sadiyah, L. H., Siahaan, P., Samsudin, A., Novia, H., & Suhendi, E. (2021). Enhancing students collaboration skills in learning geometrical optics trough the ICARE learning model at Kabawo. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2098(1), 12012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2098/1/012012

Garmire E. Nonlinear Optics: A Student’s Perspective—With Python Problems and Examples. American Journal of Physics. 2018;86(9):718-720. doi:10.1119/1.5049589

Hand, B., Prain, V., & Scholes, I. (1996). Light Learning: Enlighten students with this optics puzzle. The Science Teacher (National Science Teachers Association), 63(9), 38–40.

Hanif, S., Wijaya, A. F. C., Winarno, N., & Salsabila, E. R. (2019). The use of STEM project-based learning toward students’ concept mastery in learning light and optics. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1280(3), 32051. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1280/3/032051

Hartati, H., Mondolang, A. H., Silangen, P. M., Tulandi, D. A., Marianus, M., & Poluakan, C. (2021). PIMCA learning models to improve student learning outcomes in optic magnifying glass tool. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1968(1), 12036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1968/1/012036

James, M. C. (2011). Optics Demonstration with Student Eyeglasses Using the Inquiry Method. The Physics Teacher, 49(6), 357–359. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3628264

Masters, M. F., & Grove, T. T. (2014). Using concept building in optics to improve student research skills. 9289, 928915-928915–928924. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2070783

Nakamura, C. M., Cassar, M. T., & Brady, B. A. (2019). A pilot study of optics laboratory activities impact on students connections between theory and experiment. 11143. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2523598

Putra, A. S. U., Hamidah, I., & Nahadi. (2020). The development of five-tier diagnostic test to identify misconceptions and causes of students’ misconceptions in waves and optics materials. 1521(2), 22020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1521/2/022020

Putri, R. A. H., Widodo, A., & Rusyati, L. (2021). Developing a Four-Tier Diagnostic Test to identify students’ conception on light and optic topic. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2098(1), 12008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2098/1/012008

Senderáková, D., Mesaros, V., & Drzik, M. (2014). Coherent optics in students’ laboratories. 9441, 944113-944113–944117. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2175650

Thapa, D., & Lakshminarayanan, V. (2014). Light and optics conceptual evaluation findings from first year optometry students. 9289, 928919-928919–8. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2070519

Wardani, T. B., Widodo, A., & Winarno, N. (2017). Using Inquiry-based Laboratory Activities in Lights and Optics Topic to Improve Students’ Conceptual Understanding. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 895(1), 12152. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/895/1/012152

Xu, L., Prain, V., & Speldewinde, C. (2021). Challenges in designing and assessing student interdisciplinary learning of optics using a representation construction approach. International Journal of Science Education, 43(6), 844–867. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2021.1889070

Zhou, Y., Hu, Y., Dong, L., Liu, M., Zhao, Y., Kong, L., Hao, Q., & Huang, Y. (2017). Why not serve an educational buffet for students? Blended learning in optics experimental education. 10452, 1045210-1045210–1045216. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2268864