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The University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group has done a five-year project to rethink, observe, and reform introductory algebra-based (college) physics, which primarily serves life-science majors. We refocused the class on helping the students learn to think scientifically--to build coherence, think in terms of mechanisms, and to follow the implications of assumptions. We designed the course to tap into students' productive conceptual and epistemological resources, based on a theoretical framework from research on learning. The reformed class retains its traditional structure in terms of time and instructional personnel, but we modified existing best-practices curricular materials. We provided class-controlled spaces for student collaboration, which allowed us to observe and record students learning directly. We also scanned all written homework and examinations and administered pre-post conceptual and epistemological surveys. The reformed class enhanced the strong gains on pre-post conceptual tests produced by the best-practices materials while obtaining unprecedented pre-post gains on epistemological surveys instead of the traditional losses.
American Journal of Physics: Volume 77, Issue 7, Pages 629-642
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=12307">Redish, Edward F., and David Hammer. "Reinventing college physics for biologists: Explicating an epistemological curriculum." Am. J. Phys. 77, no. 7, (July 1, 2009): 629-642.</a>
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E. Redish and D. Hammer, , Am. J. Phys. 77 (7), 629 (2009), WWW Document, (https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3119150).
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E. Redish and D. Hammer, Reinventing college physics for biologists: Explicating an epistemological curriculum, Am. J. Phys. 77 (7), 629 (2009), <https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3119150>.
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Redish, E., & Hammer, D. (2009, July 1). Reinventing college physics for biologists: Explicating an epistemological curriculum. Am. J. Phys., 77(7), 629-642. Retrieved December 4, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3119150
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Redish, Edward F., and David Hammer. "Reinventing college physics for biologists: Explicating an epistemological curriculum." Am. J. Phys. 77, no. 7, (July 1, 2009): 629-642, https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3119150 (accessed 4 December 2024).
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Redish, Edward F., and David Hammer. "Reinventing college physics for biologists: Explicating an epistemological curriculum." Am. J. Phys. 77.7 (2009): 629-642. 4 Dec. 2024 <https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3119150>.
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