Physics – Physics Education
Scientific paper
2004-10-31
Physics
Physics Education
11 pages, 1 figure, accepted to the American Journal of Physics
Scientific paper
10.1119/1.1848115
We discuss a case study of the influence of epistemology on learning for a student in an introductory college physics course. An analysis of videotaped class work, written work, and interviews indicates that many of the student's difficulties were epistemological in nature. Our primary goal is to show instructors and curriculum developers that a student's epistemological stance - her ideas about knowledge and learning - can have a direct, causal influence on her learning of physics. This influence exists even when research-based curriculum materials provide implicit epistemological support. For this reason, curriculum materials and teaching techniques could become more effective by explicitly attending to students' epistemologies.
Elby Andrew
Lising Laura
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