Operationalizing relevance in physics education: Using a systems view to expand our conception of making physics relevant

A common hope of many physics educators and researchers is that students leave the course with a stronger sense that physics is relevant to them than when they entered the course. Multiple survey measures have attempted to measure shifts in students’ beliefs on the relevance of physics but frequentl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abhilash Nair, Vashti Sawtelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2019-09-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020121