Towards characterizing the relationship between students' interest in and their beliefs about physics

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 818, Issue , 2006, Pages 137-140

  Perkins, K K ^a   Gratny, M M ^b   Adams, W K ^a   Finkelstein, N D ^a   Wieman, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Epistemology; Interest; Learning physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751223567     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2177042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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