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Peer reviewedHammer, David – Cognition and Instruction, 1994
Interviewed six first-year college students in an introductory physics course about their beliefs about physics. Characterized the students' beliefs about the structure of physics knowledge as isolated facts or a coherent system; content of physics knowledge as formulas or underlying concepts; and process of learning physics as receiving…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Freshmen, Epistemology, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVanLehn, Kurt; Siler, Stephanie; Murray, Charles; Yamauchi, Takashi; Baggett, William B. – Cognition and Instruction, 2003
Compared tutoring episodes where tutoring did and did not cause learning in university physics students to inform design of intelligent tutoring systems. Found that when students were not at an impasse, learning was uncommon regardless of the tutorial explanations employed. When students were at an impasse, tutorial explanations were sometimes…
Descriptors: Algebra, College Students, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
