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From: Chris Horton [mailto:ChrisAHorton2@HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:48 AM
Rick wrote:
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<< . I can fairly state that my General Ed physics class regularly
ends up the first semester above 70% on the FCI and my newCalculus-Physics
class (with whom I spent much less time working on Newton'sLaws) 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
Wouldn't a gain of 0.47 be *below* the 0.70 barrier?they
P.S. FWIW, my students seem to find the 3rd law questions easiest (once
get over the difference between "force", "inertia" and "effect").
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Robert Cohen rcohen@po-box.esu.edu
570-422-3428 http://www.esu.edu/~bbq
Department of Physics
East Stroudsburg University
East Stroudsburg, PA 18301
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