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Yerdelen-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