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Re: Concept Inventory for EM



At 06:17 PM 12/19/01, Professor Hake wrote:
...Diagnostic Tests that cover important
parts of common introductory courses are national assets whose
confidentiality should be as well protected as the MCAT (Medical
College Admission Test). Otherwise the test questions may migrate to
student files and thereby undermine education research that relies
upon the validity of such tests." That these concerns are well
founded is indicated by the fact that a Google
<http://www.google.com/> search on 19 Dec 2001 for "Force Concept
Inventory" netted 211,000 hits in 0.24 sec., suggesting that the FCI
may now be well-known to many student web-surfers....


I believe Richard is mistaken: "Force Concept Inventory" finds 1010 hits.
It is true that, by contrast, Force Concept Inventory earns 203 thousand
hits.
This is an illustration of Google's willingness to look for keywords
anywhere in a text.

I have no overwhelming conviction that the MCAT's confidentiality is
secure.
Is there evidence for this position? People who see a job with a prospective
quarter million up annual salary have a way of finding facilitators.


Brian Whatcott
Altus OK Eureka!