I generally agree with what John wrote as well, but suspect that some of
the distractors that appear as very weak to John; would have a
surprisingly large number of folks choosing them as mentioned below.
The two batches of water at different temperatures strikes me as a good
example. Probably incorrect answers tell us a lot about students
ability to relate real world experience to test questions and their
abilities to read graphs. Admittedly not directly the "physics", but
worthy subjects of testing in a Physics standards test.
Just a hasty quick thought.
________________________
Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605-688-4293
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Forum for Physics Educators
| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Dan Crowe
| Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:19 PM
| To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
| Subject: Re: California Physics Standards Test
|
|
| Although I agree with most of John's comments, as listed on
| his website, I think he underestimates the difficulties that
| many high school students have with physics. Some of the
| distracters that are so obviously wrong to us seem reasonable
| to many students. In particular, Answer D in Question 9 is a
| very strong distracter. This is one of the preconceptions
| that the FCI is designed to measure.
|
| Daniel Crowe
| Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
| Ardmore Regional Center
| dcrowe@sotc.org
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Forum for Physics Educators
| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of | John Denker
|
| Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 9:58 AM
| To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
| Subject: Re: [PHYS-L] California Physics Standards Test
|
| I wrote up some thoughts on this subject. I'd like to get
| comments from this group before sending them on to Baird and
| Hernandez:
|
| My remarks are at
| http://www.av8n.com/physics/ca-test-questions.htm
|
| <snip>
|
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