Physics Graduate Students’ Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving

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written by Chandralekha Singh and Andrew J. Mason

Students' attitudes and approaches to problem solving in physics can profoundly inluence their motivation to learn and their development of expertise. We administered an Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving (AAPS) survey to physics graduate students and analyzed their responses about problem solving in their own graduate level courses vs. problem solving in introductory physics. The physics graduate students' responses to the survey questions were also compared with those of introductory students and physics faculty. Survey responses suggest that graduate students' attitudes about graduate level problem solving sometimes has similar patterns to introductory-level problem solving by introductory students.

Physics Education Research Conference 2009
Part of the PER Conference series
Ann Arbor, Michigan: July 29-30, 2009
Volume 1179, Pages 273-276

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Published: November 11, 2009

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Foundations - Student Characteristics = Affect - Teacher Characteristics = Affect Education Practices - Active Learning = Problem Solving	- Graduate/Professional - Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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Restriction:: © 2009 American Institute of Physics
DOI:: 10.1063/1.3266734
PACS:: 01.40.Fk
Keywords:: Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving survey, PERC 2009, novice vs experts, problem solving, problem solving, survey
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 13, 2009 by Alea Smith
Record Updated:: January 13, 2011 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: November 11, 2009
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Singh, C., & Mason, A. (2009, July 29-30). Physics Graduate Students’ Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9502&DocID=1378

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Singh, Chandralekha, and Andrew Mason. "Physics Graduate Students’ Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 29-30, 2009. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9502&DocID=1378 (accessed 18 April 2024).

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Singh, Chandralekha, and Andrew Mason. "Physics Graduate Students’ Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving." Physics Education Research Conference 2009. Ann Arbor, Michigan: 2009. 273-276 Vol. 1179 of PER Conference. 18 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9502&DocID=1378>.

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