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Investigation on the Difficulties Impacting the Quality of the Secondary/University Transition in Geometrical Optic Among Moroccan Students

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During the first year of the Moroccan higher education, students encounter enormous difficulties in geometrical optics. Accordingly, the authors propose this study to elucidate the causes of these difficulties in relation to the Secondary/University transition and suggest solutions to overcome them. For this study, the authors adopted a mixed method to collect both qualitative and quantitative data. The research tools used are semi-directive interviews realized with thirty high school and university teachers, questionnaires and exercises that were administered to one hundred and twenty first-year university students. The results of this investigation revealed the persistence of difficulties in geometrical optics and particularly in geometrical construction whose origins are attributed to misrepresentations and low prerequisites among students as well as a break in the curriculum and the teaching methods during the transition from secondary to higher education.

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Nasser, N., mostapha, E.k.E., Zahidi, A. (2022). Investigation on the Difficulties Impacting the Quality of the Secondary/University Transition in Geometrical Optic Among Moroccan Students. In: Kacprzyk, J., Balas, V.E., Ezziyyani, M. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD’2020). AI2SD 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1417. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90633-7_23

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