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| Abstract Title: | “This sounds like science”: The impact of epistemological framing |
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| Abstract: | We investigate the effects of classroom framing on physics students' personal epistemologies. Our data are think-aloud transcripts from college students reasoning to predictions of physical situations. We collected data from two groups, students enrolled in introductory physics (most of whom are science majors) and non-science majors. We coded participant responses for the presence of classroom and intuitive knowledge, noting when one or the other was privileged in reasoning to or justifying a prediction. Though this is a low n study, our analysis suggests the classroom framing of science students inhibits use of non-classroom or intuitive knowledge even in situations when it is useful. Using experiential knowledge appears to violate physics students' framing of the activity. This is concerning because it implies the physics students will not connect their experiential understanding of the physical world with the formal physics knowledge being presented in the classroom. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Isabel Monaghan Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Paul Hutchison, Grinnell College |
