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Girls, boys and conceptual physics: How senior secondary students have responded to a conceptual physics course

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This paper presents an evaluation of the Physics course at Dickson College (ACT). It highlights students' expectations before the course, and their impressions and feelings during the course. This is the second evaluation carried out as part of a long term study of student attitudes before and after the introduction of a more ‘conceptual’ approach to the teaching of physics at this college. Overall, this approach has produced a more positive attitude in all students, but more significantly in girls.

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  1. Dickson College, Phillip Avenue, 2602, Dickson, ACT

    J. A. Woolnough (teacher)

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Specializations: senior physics, chemistry and biology.

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Woolnough, J.A. Girls, boys and conceptual physics: How senior secondary students have responded to a conceptual physics course. Research in Science Education 23, 355 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02357084

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