CLASP students' expert-like epistemologies (MPEX-II) were statistically unchanged over the quarter, unlike the declines reported for most standard and many reformed physics classes¶

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q2 i? Administering the MPEX-II to about 600 students in two CLASP A courses in Fall 2008, the favorable fraction changed from 0.46 ± 0.01 to 0.47 ± 0.01 and the unfavorable fraction from 0.27 ± 0.01 to 0.28 ± 0.01 — statistically unchanged, in contrast to national-sample declines even in most reformed classes. → Potter 2012

Evidence¶

Potter 2012¶

Potter, W., Webb, D., West, E., Paul, C., Bowen, M., Weiss, B., Coleman, L., & De Leone, C. (2012). Sixteen years of Collaborative Learning through Active Sense-making in Physics (CLASP) at UC Davis. https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6970 doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.6970

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MPEX-II survey administered in Fall 2008 to about 600 students in two CLASP A courses, before and after the quarter. The article reports the epistemologies were "statistically unchanged over the course of the quarter"; no effect size is printed.

"favorable fraction of responses changed from 0.46 ± 0.01 to 0.47 ± 0.01 and the unfavorable fraction changed from 0.27 ± 0.01 to 0.28 ± 0.01"

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