Administration of the AAPS Survey
After the validation of the survey, the final version of the AAPS survey was
administered to several hundred introductory students in two different first-semester and
second-semester algebra-based physics courses and to students in the first and secondsemester
calculus-based courses at a typical large state university in the US. Specifically,
there were two sections of the first-semester algebra-based physics course with 209
students, two sections of the second-semester algebra-based physics course with 188
students, one first-semester calculus-based course section with 100 students, and a
second-semester calculus-based course section with 44 students. In all of these courses,
students were given a small number of bonus points for completing the survey.