Students show a large epistemological split between classroom and research contexts on thinking up their own questions¶

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q2 i? Only about 30% of students in an introductory calculus-based lab and similar-level courses agree they think up their own questions, while students expect researchers to think up their own questions. → Zwickl 2013

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Zwickl 2013¶

Zwickl, B. M., Hirokawa, T., Finkelstein, N., & Lewandowski, H. J. (2013). Development and results from a survey on students views of experiments in lab classes and research. https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5760 doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.5760

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Results from a typical introductory calculus-based lab course at a large public PhD-granting university, reported as formative feedback figures. The article calls this "one of the statements with the largest epistemological splits between what students believe about classroom experiments versus research."

"only about 30% of students in this course and in similar-level courses agree that "When doing an experiment, I usually think up my own questions to investigate." While at the same time, Fig. 4 shows that students do expect researchers to think up their own questions."

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