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I understand the issue. You need something, but the FCI is
perfectly terrible for this purpose. Even the FCI authors do
not recommend using it in this way.
Here is a partially-baked suggestion: Make your own test,
perhaps based on end-of-chapter problems from the text.
Choose ones that actually require some reasoning. Choose
ones that deal with interesting, worthwhile topics.
Note that students are quick to realize that isolated concepts
are essentially worthless, so they not motivated to learn.
In contrast, skills that lead to solving interesting problems
are seen as worth learning.
Showing gain on an interesting test is the easiest thing in
the world. Most of the incoming students will get a zero, so
things can only go up from there. (Of course in Holmdel
there will be a few wise-guys who show up on the first day
having already read the entire text and perhaps most of
Feynman volume I, so you need to account for that
somehow....)