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| Abstract Title: | A comparison of students' written explanations and CLASS responses |
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| Abstract: | We examined students' responses on the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) and their homework within a freshman physics course. The homeworks were designed to elicit detailed responses and sense-making. Students completed the CLASS prior to the start of the course. Student responses on the first two homeworks of the semester were coded for instances of evidence of sense-making, such as checking if an answer is reasonable and providing multiple explanations. We had matched CLASS responses and homeworks for 26 students. Our results show that evidence of sense-making on the homework assignments is essentially uncorrelated with percent favorable score on the CLASS and weakly correlated with percent unfavorable score. These results suggest that students' formal beliefs about physics, as measured by the CLASS, may be only weakly related to how students engage in solving physics problems and indicate that further study is needed. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Gabriel Rowe Clark University Phone: 781-710-8779 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Anna McLean Phillips, Tufts University |
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