TY - BOOK
T1 - Attrition and retention in university physics
T2 - a longitudinal qualitative study of the interaction between first year students and the study of physics
AU - Johannsen, Bjørn Friis
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This thesis tells the story about a traditional physics programme where it was long forgotten why students are educated the way they are. A one year longitudinal interview study with 18 first year physics students uncovers the consequences or their learning. The result is that to cope, some students need to defer their need for intellectual gratification. The consequence of long term deference of intellectual gratification appears to be that initially proactively disposed students are slowly subdued and end by relying mostly on learning strategies that research reports consistently point out as strategies that cannot be associated with quality learning outcomes. The result seems be an empirical model that points to prioritizing an aim at the evaluative practices in future reform.
AB - This thesis tells the story about a traditional physics programme where it was long forgotten why students are educated the way they are. A one year longitudinal interview study with 18 first year physics students uncovers the consequences or their learning. The result is that to cope, some students need to defer their need for intellectual gratification. The consequence of long term deference of intellectual gratification appears to be that initially proactively disposed students are slowly subdued and end by relying mostly on learning strategies that research reports consistently point out as strategies that cannot be associated with quality learning outcomes. The result seems be an empirical model that points to prioritizing an aim at the evaluative practices in future reform.
UR - https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/fbp0ps/alma99122420221505763
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Attrition and retention in university physics
PB - Department of Science Education, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
ER -