In this data-driven academic culture, one of the most worthwhile
actions you can take is to give the FCI and/or MBT. Record your
students' FCI posttest scores in a spreadsheet. It will help you
ascertain your effectiveness and know WHERE to improve!
Share your student FCI results with your colleagues. It will
establish excellence. -- Jane Jackson
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.
The 26 languages: Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Chinese
(traditional), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish
(Suomi), French (Canadian), French (France), German, Greek,
Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian (Italiano), Japanese, Malaysian
(Bahasa), Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal),
Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, & Turkish.
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) An excel 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).