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"Cannonballs or Baby's Bowls: How Context and Gender affect Physics Tests"
Laura E.
McCullough Saturday morning, March 31, 2007 |
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As physics teachers, we like to think that physics is physics, no matter what context we see it in. A study of how the context of a physics question affects student response suggests that students don't see it the same way. Changing a question from a stereotypically male context (a cannonball fired from a cliff) to a stereotypically female context (a baby hits her bowl off her tray) affects student answers. In this talk I will focus on the effects of context and gender on student answers to physics questions. |
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