Antti Savinainen (2010) in his Phys-L post "Errata for FCI?" wrote
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Richard Tarara asked about the buoyancy force FCI question:
"1st: Is this question still on the current version of the FCI."
No, it is not (I think nobody answered this question?). The current
version was published in 1995, three years after the original FCI.
Almost all educational research involving the FCI has been conducted
using the revised version.
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WELL SAID, ANTTI SAVINAINEN !!
One of the problems is that, although as Antti writes, "almost all
educational research involving the FCI has been conducted using the
revised version," most of that research (other than by the Harvard
group) SLOPPILY fails to indicate that the 1995 version of the FCI
was used, referencing only the original version by Hestenes et al.
(1992)!
No wonder most Phys-Lers who have contributed to the 24-post (as of
03 Nov 2010 15:20:00-0700) thread "Errata for FCI?" appear to be
unaware of 1995 revision by Halloun et al. (1995) of the original
1992 FCI by Hestenes et al. (1992).
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Richard Feynman
REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on
03 November 2010.]
Halloun, I., R.R. Hake, E.P. Mosca, & D. Hestenes. 1995. "Force
Concept Inventory (1995 Revision)," online (password protected) at
<http://bit.ly/b1488v>, scroll down to "Evaluation Instruments."
Currently available in 20 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian,
Czech, English, Finnish, French, French (Canadian), German, Greek,
Italian, Japanese, Malaysian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish,
Slovak, Swedish, & Turkish.
Hestenes, D., M. Wells and G. Swackhamer. 1992. "Force Concept
Inventory," Phys. Teach. 30, 141; online (but without the test
itself) at <http://bit.ly/b1488v>, Tables I and II, revised for the
1995 version [Halloun et al. (2005)] are online at
<http://bit.ly/b1488v>, directly below the first reference under
"Articles about the FCI." For concept inventories in other areas of
physics and in other disciplines see NCSU (2010) and National
Academies (2008).
Labov, J.B., S.R. Singer, M.D. George, H.A. Schweingruber, & M.L.
Hilton. 2009. "Effective Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education
Part 1: Examining the Evidence," CBE Life Sci Educ 8(3): 157-161;
online at <http://bit.ly/cRc0JC>. This article includes a discussion
of the "Workshop on Linking Evidence and Promising Practices in STEM
Undergraduate Education" [National Academies (2008)].
National Academies. 2008. "Workshop on Linking Evidence and Promising
Practices in STEM Undergraduate Education": (a) introductory sessions
are online at <http://bit.ly/ciNwjQ>; (b) commissioned Papers are
online at <http://bit.ly/ceg1Bx>. See also the commentary on this
workshop by Labov et al. (2009).
NCSU. 2010. "Assessment Instrument Information Page," Physics
Education R & D Group, North Carolina State University"; online at
<http://bit.ly/9gfUpY>.
Savinainen, A. 2010. "Re: [Phys-l] Errata for FCI?" Phys-L post of 3
Nov 2010 21:50:00 +0300; online on the OPEN! Phys-L archives at
<http://bit.ly/dqsulI>.