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Bridging the Gaps: How Students Seek Disciplinary Coherence in Introductory Physics for Life Science
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Direct linkGeller, Benjamin D.; Gouvea, Julia; Dreyfus, Benjamin W.; Sawtelle, Vashti; Turpen, Chandran; Redish, Edward F. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Students in one discipline often receive their scientific training from faculty in other disciplines. As a result of tacit disciplinary differences, especially as implemented in courses at the introductory college level, such students can have difficulty in understanding the nature of the knowledge they are learning in a discipline that they do…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Physics, Biological Sciences, Intellectual Disciplines
