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FCI - History & Context @UJ April 2022

Published on Nov 28, 2015

I will give a rather personal discussion of how my collaborators, and I have used the FCI to understand issues in conceptual physics on classical mechanics courses. This includes a recent collaboration with colleagues at the Physics Department at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), of which I am visiting Senior Research Associate. I will give some history and context to UJ , and then hopefully be able to have an open discussion about current and future opportunities.

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

FCI - History & Context

Dr Wade Naylor, ACU

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Ethnoastronomy

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Kuringai people’s stone engraving of an emu near Sydney

Randall D. Knight - California Polytechnic

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Motivation?
What is the force concept inventory?
Why use the FCI?
Future work

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Are Concepts Important?

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Lectures don't work

Physics majors don't understand classical mechanics - conceptually
Flipped classrooms more common
To improve student outcomes
Can teachers improve their andragogy?
Mazur - Peer Instruction

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Peer Instruction

Mazur
Students get:
Rapid feedback
"Work" in peer groups
IE - Interactive Engagement

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30 multichoice questions
30 minutes (depends)
pre and post test
COMPARE the normalised GAINs
Item by item analysis
Dominant misconceptions

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Uses

A research tool
Instructor Andragogy
Dominant misconceptions
Diversity Comparisons
Inclusion: Gender

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Polarising Questions

A large subset of questions that students choose incorrectly

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UJ Diversity - 50,000

63% are South African, 14% from the rest of SADC, 20% from the rest of Africa, while 3% are from the rest of the world
Only 39.6% of doctoral students are female, while 68.5% are black, 3.3% are coloured, 7.8% are Indian and 20.4% are white (HEDA : 2018)

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