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Exploring The Relationship Among Students' Preconceptions, Attitudes, And Major, Matthew Dwyer
Exploring The Relationship Among Students' Preconceptions, Attitudes, And Major, Matthew Dwyer
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
The Force Concept Inventory, (a multiple-choice classical mechanics exam given as a pre-test within the first two weeks of a course and as a post-test within the last two weeks of a course) is one of the most widely used tools in physics education research. The most basic research, which has been implemented at Northern Illinois University for many years, employs a pre- and post-test structure to observe improvements in students' scores over a semester and is used as a quantitative representation of students' learning over the duration of a course. While many studies have been published about best practices …