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Direct linkYerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
This study investigates how elite Turkish high school physics students claim to approach learning physics when they are simultaneously (i) engaged in a curriculum that led to significant gains in their epistemological sophistication and (ii) subject to a high-stakes college entrance exam. Students reported taking surface (rote) approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Elby, Andrew; Eryilmaz, Ali – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
This study explored how researchers' views about the form of students' epistemologies influence how the researchers develop and refine surveys and how they interpret survey results. After running standard statistical analyses on 505 physics students' responses to the Turkish version of the Maryland Physics Expectations-II survey, probing students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Psychometrics, Researchers, Epistemology
