Force Concept Inventory ACU 2022 by Wade Naylor

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Force Concept Inventory ACU 2022

Published on Nov 28, 2015

A review of the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) and its uses previously at Osaka University and more recently at the Department of Physics at the University of Johannesburg.

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Conceptual Understanding in Physics

Dr Wade Naylor, ACU (April 2022)

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Oldest recorded astronomers

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Kuringai people’s stone engraving of an emu near Sydney

Randall D. Knight - California Polytechnic

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Content

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

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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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FCI

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

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Uses

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

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UJ Doctoral Diversity

University of Joburg
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 the 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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