At 05:08 PM 2/20/2006, you wrote:
much they picked up in the college class. It is just assumed that they
must have learned more in the college class.
And isn't there research that shows students actually perform worse
in physics after having college physics than those who have had no
college physics? I believe one of the professors who just started
here has done research on that issue... so perhaps the college
classes were actually interfering with their knowledge... So perhaps
AP is working and it is college that isn't...
- Marc
Found the abstract to one of the articles before I hit send, so here it is...
Oberle, C., McBeathg, M., Madigan, S. & Sugar, T. (2005). The Galileo
Bias: A naive conceptual belief that influences perople's perceptions
and performance in a ball-dropping task. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 643-663.
ABSTRACT (emphasis added)
"This research introduces a new naive physics belief, the Galileo
bias, whereby people ignore air resistance and falsely believe that
all objects fall at the same rate. Survey results revealed that this
bias is held by many and is surprisingly strongest for those with
formal physics instruction. In 2 experiments, 98 participants dropped
ball pairs varying in volume and/or mass from a height of 10 m, with
the goal of both balls hitting the ground simultaneously. The
majority of participants in both experiments adopted a single
strategy consistent with the Galileo bias, showing no improvement
across trials. Yet, for participants reporting intentions of dropping
both balls at the same time, the differences between release points
were significantly greater than 0 ms. These findings support separate
but interacting cognition and perception-action systems. "
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Lecturer & Technology Coordinator
Department of Psychology
Texas State University-San Marcos
San Marcos, TX 78666
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