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Applying beliefs and resources frameworks to the psychometric analyses of an epistemology survey

Sevda Yerdelen-Damar, Andrew Elby, and Ali Eryilmaz
Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 8, 010104 – Published 8 February 2012

Abstract

This study explored how researchers’ views about the form of students’ epistemologies influence how the researchers develop and refine surveys and how they interpret survey results. After running standard statistical analyses on 505 physics students’ responses to the Turkish version of the Maryland Physics Expectations-II survey, probing students’ epistemologies and expectations, we interpreted the results through two different theoretical lenses, the beliefs perspective and the resources perspective. We showed that the beliefs and resources frameworks provided different interpretations of the psychometric analyses, leading to different conclusions about how the survey results should be interpreted and how the survey should be improved.

  • Received 9 September 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.8.010104

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Sevda Yerdelen-Damar1, Andrew Elby2, and Ali Eryilmaz3

  • 1Secondary Science and Mathematics Education, Yüzüncü Yıl University, 65080, Van, Turkey
  • 2Department of Physics and Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 3Secondary Science and Mathematics Education, Middle East Technical University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

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Vol. 8, Iss. 1 — January - June 2012

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