May, 2015
1) The Force Concept Inventory (1995 revision -- I. Halloun, R.R.
Hake, E.P. Mosca, and D. Hestenes) is available (as
password-protected.pdf) in 26 languages, to educators .
Visit <http://modeling.asu.edu> and click on "Research and Evaluation".
Articles about the FCI by David Hestenes and others can be downloaded
there. Also, a revised Table I and revised Table II.
2) The Mechanics Baseline Test (MBT; Hestenes & Wells) is available
(as password-protected .pdf) in 11 languages, at that webpage.
We are thankful to physics faculty and high school physics teachers
who volunteered to make these translations. Please reply to me, Jane
Jackson <jane.jackson@asu.edu>, if you know of translations in more
languages, or if you want to translate the FCI or MBT into another
language.
3) A spreadsheet called ASSESSSS allows you to analyze data for the
Force Concept Inventory, Test for Understanding Graphs in Kinematics
(TUG-K2), Mechanics Baseline Test, and Lawson Classroom Test of
Scientific Reasoning (CTSR). It has additional blank spreadsheet and
answer keys for Energy Concept Inventory and the Conceptual Survey of
Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM). Users can analyze the FCI by
clusters (i.e., subcategory: by each of the 6 dimensions of the force
concept).
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peace,
Jane
Jane Jackson, Co-Director, ASU Modeling Instruction Prgm
Box 871504, Dept.of Physics, ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287
480-965-8438/fax:965-7565 http://modeling.asu.edu
Jane.Jackson@asu.edu
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