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| Abstract Title: | Personal epistemologies as barriers and facilitators to learning by Science and Engineering undergraduate students |
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| Abstract: | I am the principal investigator of a SSHRC grant with the above title. I have developed a suite of activities that seem to get students to evaluate their understanding in terms of two alternative frameworks; Aristotle, and Galileo & Newton. Students become aware that the frameworks relate concepts from different parts of the course and learn to evaluate the frameworks. We plan to develop and deploy instruments that can measure changes in students' learning before and after using the array of activities. Data will be collected in several post-secondary institutions. Interviews will be conducted by research assistants under the supervision of professors on the team. The first year of the program (2010-11) is to involve development and testing of the instruments to be used to examine changes in student epistemologies. In this roundtable, I and one of my co-applicants, Tetyana Antimirova would like to discuss what instruments should be used. |
| Abstract Type: | Round Table Discussion |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Calvin S. Kalman Physics/Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B 1R6 Phone: 514-848-2424x3284 Fax: 514-848-2828 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Tetyana Antimirova Physics Department Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 Tel: (416) 979-5000 ext. 7416 Fax: (416) 979-5343 E-Mail: antimiro -at- ryerson.ca |
