Resumen de Physics Thirst? A Survey of NinthGrade Physics Students

Boris Korsunsky, Grace Huckins

• In 2008, this magazine ran an article1describing the results of a survey of the eighthgraders who were about to begin their first physics course at Weston High School. The results helped this coauthor BK and his high school colleagues better understand the expectations of the incoming students. It seemed useful, however, to conduct another survey�one that would probe the attitudes and the perceptions of our ninthgraders who were actually taking physics. That survey was conducted in June 2010 by BK and GH the latter, at the time, was a sophomore enrolled in BKs Advanced Placement® Physics C course.