Exploring business students' and liberal arts students' beliefs about physics and physics learning

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

Science Education

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volume

8

Issue

1

First Page

100

Last Page

106

Publication Date

4-1-2007

Abstract

The study describes the extent of change in students' cognitive expectations after going through an Introductory Physics course. Cognitive expectations are beliefs about the learning process and the structure of knowledge. Using the Maryland Physics Expectations (MPEX) survey, the students' responses reflected the highest level of agreement with the 'experts' response' in the following clusters: independence, math link, reality link, and effort link. The study has shown that students could move from a novice-like view of Physics and learning Physics to a more expert-like view. Copyright 2007 by Education Research Institute.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1007/BF03025836

Disciplines

Physics | Science and Mathematics Education

Keywords

Physics—Study and teaching

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