Expectations
Concepts are not the entire story.
- Students' beliefs about
- the nature of the knowledge they are supposed to be learning
- what one needs to do to learn it
have a profound affect on what they do in a physics class.
Of particular importance are their views on
- the role of concepts
- the need for consistency
- the relevance of their real-world experience.
The Maryland Physics Expectations Survey (MPEX)
- a 34 item “agree-disagree” survey