Force Concept Inventory: More than just conceptual understanding

Autor: Siera M. Stoen, Mark A. McDaniel, Regina F. Frey, K. Mairin Hynes, Michael J. Cahill
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Zdroj: Physical Review Physics Education Research, Vol 16, Iss 1, p 010105 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2469-9896
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.010105
Popis: The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) can serve as a summative assessment of students’ conceptual knowledge at the end of introductory physics, but previous work has suggested that the knowledge measured by this instrument is not a unitary construct. In this article, we consider the idea that FCI performance may reflect a number of student attributes including relational knowledge structures of physics concepts, expertlike attitudes, and problem-solving skills. Using a large calculus-based introductory physics course, we show that knowledge of conceptual relationships (i.e., knowledge structures), attitudinal measures, and problem-solving ability are all measures that uniquely contribute to a postinstruction FCI score. While these associations do not reveal the nature of their relation to the FCI (it could be that good students perform well on all these measures), they do provide evidence that improving any one of these aspects may improve a student’s overall FCI score.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals