Student Content Assessments
Instrument 1: Force Concept Inventory
Project: Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in
the Preparation of Teachers (ACEPT)
Arizona State University
Funding Source: NSF: Collaboratives for Excellence
in Teacher Preparation (DUE)
Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of
each graduate to teach students desired pedagogic outcomes
(to reliably discriminate between the applicability of scientific
concepts and naive alternatives in common physical situations)
using a modeling instruction approach
Administered To: High school students whose
teachers were participating in the collaborative program
Topics Covered:
- Items related to force in physics
Format/Length: 28 closed-ended multiple-choice
questions
Evaluation Feature:The Force Concept Inventory
(FCI) was also administered to participating college students
to assess their knowledge of physics. Data from the FCI and
final grades from the physics course were compared with student
views about knowing and learning science using the Views About
Sciences Survey (VASS).
FORCE CONCEPT INVENTORY
(September 2024 update: Content removed at the request of the American Association of Physics Teachers
so as to not compromise use of the test for research purposes.)
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