The initial knowledge state of college physics students

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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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Halloun et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a086bfeef79633196e8b66f https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1119/1.14030

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American Journal of Physics

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Arizona State University

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