Re: Your views needed...

["John M. Clement" <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>]

The VASS is not a simple multiple choice exam.  The answer sheet has a 7
level answer with 1 being only a, 7 being only b and 4 equally a and b, with
a graduated scale in between.  An extra choice 8 is neither a nor b.  This
may help clear up some of the confusion, or maybe not.  Some of these
questions are not expected to have a single right or wrong answer.  Like the
MPEX it seems to be a good predictor of attitude, with a high correlation
with success in physics courses.  As such a simple multiple choice answer is
simplistic and uninformative.

John M. Clement

> Hello everybody,
> I have just joined to the list.
> I've been working on VASS (Views about sciences survey) by I. Halloun,
> and would like to learn your choices for the following items;
>
> 12.    Physicists’ current ideas about particles that make up the atom
> apply to:
>    (a)    physical objects that could be anywhere in the universe.
>    (b)    some physical objects in the universe but not others.
>
> 13.    Newton’s laws of motion (like his second law expressed in the
> form F = ma) apply to:
>    (a)    physical objects that could be anywhere in the universe.
>    (b)    some physical objects in the universe but not others.
>
> Thanks.