Exploring business students' and liberal arts students' beliefs about physics and physics learning

• Main Author: Mistades, Voltaire Mallari
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Physics—Study and teaching; Physics; Science and Mathematics Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2157; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/3156/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study describes the extent of change in students' cognitive expectations after going through an Introductory Physics course. Cognitive expectations are beliefs about the learning process and the structure of knowledge. Using the Maryland Physics Expectations (MPEX) survey, the students' responses reflected the highest level of agreement with the 'experts' response' in the following clusters: independence, math link, reality link, and effort link. The study has shown that students could move from a novice-like view of Physics and learning Physics to a more expert-like view. Copyright 2007 by Education Research Institute.