Affidivation:

Kansas State University

NSF Directorate:

EDU

Gender:

M

Award Year:

2002

Citation:

For studying how undergraduate students learn to develop and test "mental models" of how real world devices work and then determines how these models evolve from instruction through testing of ideas, including their transfer to other contexts. He is developing and pilot-testing instruction materials for an application-based introductory undergraduate physics course for architecture and engineering students.