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The initial knowledge state of college physics students
Abstract
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.
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Clement, J. (1982) · American Journal of Physics · doi:10.1119/1.12989 · Cited by 1,230
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Common sense concepts about motion
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- Authors
- Halloun, I. A., & Hestenes, D.
- Venue
- American Journal of Physics
- Published
- 1985-11-01
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1043-1055
- ISSN
- 0002-9505 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-2909
- OpenAlex
- W2124567236
- Cited by
- 1,074
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 60.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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