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3.2 The Maryland Physics Expectations Survey (MPEX)

[A] Authors

Edward (Joe) Redish
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

redish@physics.umd.edu

[B] Summary and Format

The survey has been developed by the Maryland Physics Education Research Group as part of a project to study the attitudes, beliefs, and expectations of students that have an effect on what they learn in an introductory calculus-based physics course. Students are asked to agree or disagree on a five point scale with 34 statements about how they see physics and how they think they work in their physics course.

[C] Citation

E.F. Redish, J.M. Saul, R.N. Steinberg
Student expectations in introductory physics
Am. J Phys(66), 212-224, (1998).

[D] How to obtain

The instrument can be obtained online as can a version (MPEX II) more suited to algebra based classes.

[E] Relevant literature

This link takes you to Google Scholar search for literature associated with this concept inventory.

Google Scholar citation for the MPEX