Re: Order of E&M topics (was B and electric charge)

[Robert Cohen <Robert.Cohen@PO-BOX.ESU.EDU>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Horton [mailto:ChrisAHorton2@HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:48 AM
>
> Rick wrote:
>
> [snip]
> << .  I can fairly state that my General Ed physics class regularly
> > ends up the first semester above 70% on the FCI and my new
> Calculus-Physics
> > class (with whom I spent much less time working on Newton's
> Laws) ended up
> > this year at 66% and a normalized gain of .47.  >>
>
> For a non-research-based course those are outstanding
> results.  How do you
> do it - aside from mantras?

Wait a sec - doesn't the 70% barrier correspond to the gain, not the score?
Wouldn't a gain of 0.47 be *below* the 0.70 barrier?

P.S. FWIW, my students seem to find the 3rd law questions easiest (once they
get over the difference between "force", "inertia" and "effect").

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