Validating the Force Concept Inventory with Sub-Questions: Preliminary Results of the Second Year Survey

Jun-ichiro Yasuda; Masa-aki Taniguchi

doi:10.14712/18047106.756

Vol. 8 (2017): Keynotes and selected papers from the International Conference on Physics Education, ICPE-EPEC 2013 (Special Issue) Selected papers

Validating the Force Concept Inventory with Sub-Questions: Preliminary Results of the Second Year Survey

Jun-ichiro Yasuda, ¹ Masa-aki Taniguchi, ²

Center for General Education, Gifu University, Gifu
Comprehensive Scientific Education Center, Meijo University, Nagoya

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/18047106.756

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Yasuda, J.- ichiro, & Taniguchi, M.- aki. (2017). Validating the Force Concept Inventory with Sub-Questions: Preliminary Results of the Second Year Survey. Scientia in Educatione, 8. https://doi.org/10.14712/18047106.756

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We address the validity of the FCI, that is, whether respondents who answer FCI questions correctly have an actual understanding of the concepts of physics tested in the questions. We used sub-questions that test students on concepts believed to be required to answer the actual FCI questions. Our sample size comprises about five hundred respondents; we derive false positive ratios for pre-learners and post-learners, and evaluate the significant difference between them. Our analysis shows a significant difference at the 95 % confidence level for Q.6, Q.7, and Q.16, implying that it is possible for post-learners to answer three questions without understanding the concepts of physics tested in the questions; therefore, Q.6, Q.7 and Q.16 are invalid.

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[1] Halloun, I. & Hestenes, D. (1985). The initial knowledge state of college physics students. Am. J. Phys., 53(11), 1043–1055. Search in Google Scholar

[2] Halloun, I. & Hestenes, D. (1985): Common sense concepts about motion. Am. J. Phys., 53(11), 1056–1065. Search in Google Scholar

[3] Hestenes, D. & Halloun, I. (1995). Interpreting the force concept inventory: A response to March 1995 critique by Huffman and Heller. Phys. Teach., 33(8), 502–506. Search in Google Scholar

[4] Heller, P. & Huffman, D. (1995). Interpreting the force concept inventory: A reply to Hestenes and Halloun. Phys. Teach., 33(8), 503–511. Search in Google Scholar

[5] Hestenes, D. & Jackson, J. (1992). Revised Table II for the Force Concept Inventory. Available at http://modeling.asu.edu/R&E/Research.html Search in Google Scholar

[6] Hestenes, D., Wells, M. & Swackhamer, G. (1992). Force concept inventory. Phys. Teach., 30, 141–158. Search in Google Scholar

[7] Huffman, D. & Heller, P. (1995). What does the force concept inventory actually measure? Phys. Teach., 33(3), 138–143. Search in Google Scholar

[8] Morris, G.A., Branum-Martin, L., Harshman, N., Baker, S.D., Mazur, E., Dutta, S., Mzoughi, T., & McCauley, V. (2006). Testing the test: Item response curves and test quality. Am. J. Phys., 74(5), 449–453. Search in Google Scholar

[9] Morris, G.A., Harshman, N., Branum-Martin, L., Mazur, E., Mzoughi, T., & Baker, S.D. (2012). An item response curves analysis of the Force Concept Inventory. Am. J. Phys., 80(9), 825–831. Search in Google Scholar

[10] Rebello, N. & Zollman, D. (2004). The effect of distractors on student performance on the force concept inventory. Am. J. Phys., 72(1), 116–125. Search in Google Scholar

[11] Redish, E. (2003). Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite. Hoboken: Wiley. Search in Google Scholar

[12] Scott, T.F., Schumayer, D. & Gray, A.R. (2012). Exploratory factor analysis of a Force Concept Inventory data set. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 8(2), 020105-1–020105-10. Search in Google Scholar

[13] Stewart, J., Griffin, H., & Stewart, G. (2007). Context sensitivity in the force concept inventory. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 3, 010102-1–010102-6. Search in Google Scholar

[14] Taniguchi, M. & Yasuda, J. (2014). Quantitative Validation of Japanese Translation of Force Concept Inventory using Sub-Questions. Journal of the Physics Education Society of Japan (in Japanese only), 62(4), 226–231. Search in Google Scholar

[15] Thornton, R.K., Kuhl, D., Cummings, K. & Marx, J. (2009). Comparing the force and motion conceptual evaluation and the force concept inventory. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 5(1), 010105-1–010105-8. Search in Google Scholar

[16] Yasuda, J. & Taniguchi, M. (2013). Validating two questions in the Force Concept Inventory with subquestions. Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res., 9(1), 010113-1–010113-7. Search in Google Scholar

[17] Yasuda, J., Uematsu, H., & Nitta, H. (2012). Validating a Japanese version of the Force Concept Inventory. Lat. Am. J. Phys. Educ., 6(1), 89–94. Search in Google Scholar

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