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Ibrahim Halloun and David Hestenes
An instrument to assess the basic knowledge state of students taking a first course in physics has been designed and validated. Measurements with the instrument show that the student's initial qualitative, common sense beliefs about motion and causes has a large effect on performance in physics, but conventional instruction induces only a small change in those beliefs.
American Journal of Physics: Volume 53, Issue 11, Pages 1043-1055
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![]() <a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=2658">Halloun, Ibrahim, and David Hestenes. "The initial knowledge state of the college physics students." Am. J. Phys. 53, no. 11, (November 1, 1985): 1043-1055.</a>
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