Exploring business students\u27 and liberal arts students\u27 beliefs about physics and physics learning

The study describes the extent of change in students\u27 cognitive expectations after going through an Introductory Physics course. Cognitive expectations are beliefs about the learning process and the structure of knowledge. Using the Maryland Physics Expectations (MPEX) survey, the students\u27 responses reflected the highest level of agreement with the \u27experts\u27 response\u27 in the following clusters: independence, math link, reality link, and effort link. The study has shown that students could move from a novice-like view of Physics and learning Physics to a more expert-like view. Copyright 2007 by Education Research Institute