Student expectations in introductory physics

被引:444
作者
Redish, EF [1 ]
Saul, JM [1 ]
Steinberg, RN [1 ]
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[1] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
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10.1119/1.18847
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G40 [教育学];
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040101 ; 120403 ;
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Students' understanding of what science is about, how it is done, and their expectations as to what goes on in a science course, can play a powerful role in what they get out of introductory college physics. In this paper, we describe the Maryland Physics Expectations survey; a 34-item Likert-scale (agree-disagree) survey that probes student attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions about physics. We report on the results of pre-and post-instruction delivery of this survey to 1500 students in introductory calculus-based physics at six colleges and universities. We note a large gap between the expectations of experts and novices and observe a tendency for student expectations to deteriorate rather than improve as a result of the first term of introductory calculus-based physics. (C) 1998 American Association of Physics Teachers.
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