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Student epistemologies in Physics, their ideas about knowing and what kinds of knowledge are valuable, affect learning and have been the subject of many recent reforms in Physics education. This project is an investigation into student epistemologies in a reformed introductory Physics course at Tufts University. I interviewed fifteen students between four and sixteen months after completing Physics ... read more11 at Tufts, and used their words to find evidence of their epistemologies about Physics. I found that students who understood the epistemological goals of the course generally also liked the course, and students who did not understand these goals generally did not like the course. Underneath these general classifications, I found some more specific, focused variability in student epistemologies, which is the subject of the second conjecture. I conclude with suggestions for future research, which I hope will expand this exploratory study and build upon my findings here.read less
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