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(Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey)**

 

 
 

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Introduction

Here are a number of statements which may or may not describe your beliefs about learning physics. You are asked to rate each statement by selecting a number between 1 and 5 where the numbers mean the following:

  1. Strongly Disagree
  2. Disagree
  3. Neutral
  4. Agree
  5. Strongly Agree

Choose one of the above five choices that best expresses your feeling about the statement. If you don't understand a statement, leave it blank. If you have no strong opinion, choose 3.

Survey
  1. A significant challenge when learning physics is being able to memorize all the information I need to know.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  2. After I have answered a question in a physics problem, I examine the answer to see if it makes sense.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  3. I think about the physics I experience in everyday life.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  4. If the results of a carefully performed physics experiment vary widely, it is ok as long as it worked once.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  5. After I study a topic in physics and feel that I understand it, I have difficulty solving problems on the same topic.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  6. Knowledge in physics consists of many disconnected topics.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  7. For me, reading the text in detail and working through many of the examples given in the text is necessary to learn physics.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  8. For me, solving a physics problem more than one way helps develop my reasoning skills and is not a waste of time.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  9. I am not satisfied until I understand why it is something works the way it does.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  10. I cannot learn physics if the teacher does not explain things well in class.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  11. I do not expect to understand physics equations in an intuitive sense; they must just be taken as givens.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  12. I study physics to learn knowledge that will be useful in life.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  13. I think anyone can learn physics.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  14. If a theory or explanation is given on a website, it is probably correct.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  15. If I came up with two different approaches to a problem and they gave different answers, I would not worry about it; the answer depends on how you look at it.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  16. To understand physics I discuss it with friends and other students.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  17. If I don't remember a particular equation needed for a problem on an exam, there's nothing much I can do (legally!) to come up with it.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  18. If I want to apply a method used for solving one physics problem to another problem, the objects involved in the two problems must be exactly the same.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  19. If something is widely publicized by the media, it is almost certainly true.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  20. In doing a physics problem, if my calculation gives a result very different from what I'd expect, I'd trust the calculation rather than going back through the problem.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  21. In physics, it is important for me to make sense out of formulas before I can use them correctly.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  22. In physics, mathematical formulas express meaningful relationships among variables.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  23. It is important for the government to approve new scientific theories before they can be widely accepted.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  24. Knowledge in chemistry is independent of knowledge in physics.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  25. Learning physics changes my ideas about how the world works.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  26. To learn physics, I only need to memorize important equations and definitions.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  27. Reasoning skills used to learn physics can be helpful to me in my everyday life.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  28. Since Einstein's theory of relativity is just a theory, scientists may believe it's completely wrong tomorrow.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  29. Spending a lot of time figuring out and understanding the derivations or proofs of formulas is a waste of time. As long as I know a formula works it doesn't matter where it came from.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  30. For me to learn physics, it is much more useful to solve many problems rather than by carefully analyzing just a few in detail.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  31. The physics used today, which is firmly based on experiment, is certain to be useful in the future.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  32. The subject of physics has little relation to what I experience in the real world.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  33. There is only one correct approach to solving any given physics problem.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  34. To understand physics, I sometimes think about my personal experiences and relate them to the topic being analyzed.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  35. It is possible to learn physics without mathematical formulas.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  36. When I solve a physics problem, I explicitly think about the concepts within the problem.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  37. When studying physics, I reorganize the important information rather than just memorizing it the way it is presented.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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  38. I answered the questions on this survey without thinking seriously about them.
    Strongly Disagree12345Strongly Agree
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    **Several of the questions on this survey are drawn directly from the MPEX (Maryland Physics Expectations Survey).



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