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Creating a New Physics Education Learning Environment
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Resource D. Pre- and post-tests used by Curt for formative assessment
Curt's students begin their semester with him by spending two to four hours on diagnostic pre-tests. He draws on tests from the following list, selecting those appropriate for the particular course he is teaching.
- Force Concept Inventory (FCI): See Hestenes et al., (1992). Available with password at http://modeling.la.asu.edu/.
- Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM):
See Hieggelke et al. (1996).13
During four years of testing and refinement, the CSEM has been given in one form or another and data collected from more than 8,000 introductory physics students at more than 30 different institutions in a pre/post test mode. It contains 32 questions that comprise a subset of the questions on the CSE and CSM.
- Conceptual Survey of Electricity (CSE): See Hieggelke et al. (1996). The CSE was developed to assess students' knowledge of topics in electricity. It combines the electricity questions from the CSEM with a few multiple-choice items, for a total of 32 questions.
- Conceptual Survey of Magnetism (CSM): See Hieggelke et al. (1996). The CSM was developed to assess students' knowledge about topics in magnetism. This test (21 multiple-choice questions) is used as both a pre-test and post-test for second semester introductory physics courses. It contains the magnetism questions in the CSEM as well as a few more multiple choice questions.
- Maryland Physics Expectations Survey (MPEX): See Redish, Saul, and Steinberg, (1998). See also http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/expects/ex.htm.
- Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE): See Thornton and Sokoloff, (1998). Available at http://Physics.Dickinson.edu/PhysicsPages/Workshop_Physics/
Instructor_Resources/Curricular_Materials/Conceptual_Assessments.
- Electric Circuit Conceptual Assessment (ECCE): See Sokoloff (1996) and Sokoloff, (in press). Available at http://Physics.Dickinson.edu/PhysicsPages/Workshop_Physics/
Instructor_Resources/Curricular_Materials/Conceptual_Assessments.
Post-tests
Note that the following tests have been developed by physics faculty across the country and are used across the nation to provide comparative, summative data on student learning:
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