Strategies for promoting real-world connections in problem solving for introductory physics

It is well known that students’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning in physics affect their motivation and learning in this subject. In this thesis I examine a course transformation that presented the entire course in terms of real-world circumstances and problems which was intended...

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Main Author: Martinuk, Mathew Alexander
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43082