Exploration of Epistemological Beliefs in a Summer Science Program for High Achieving Students(1)

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #248.04

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We will describe changes in epistemology of students in a comprehensive summer science program for high achieving students at City College New York. The program focuses on having students participate in the process of scientific discovery using inquiry based activities such as the astronomy units from Physics by Inquiry(2). Multiple tools were used throughout the program to study student epistemological beliefs about science. We administered a Likert scale survey about how science is done as well as multiple content questions from which student beliefs were inferred. Instructor perspectives on student epistemologies are used in conjunction with these tools to study improvements and correlations between the different measures.
(1) Supported in part by the National Science Foundation
(2) Physics by Inquiry, L.C. McDermott, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1996

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