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Re: Your views needed...

Those two items were both in P12 and p20 forms of the same instrument.
As you said in p12, there was an eight-point scale. But in P20 itme16 to
40 it is a 5-point scale, and for those two items (item6 to 15 actually)
the testee is expected answer either a or b. When I looked at all items
of the test, those two were most confusing for me. And I just wanted to
learn your ideas. I was not trying to deduce something just by looking
the response given to those two only. Halloun and Hestenes have always
argued and showed that student views about science and course
achievement are related. Testee is labeled as having an expert profile,
a high transitional profile, low transitional profile or folk profile
according to results of her/his responses.


John M. Clement wrote:

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.