Tuesday, January 13, 2009

McCaskey, Dancy & Elby, Proceedings of 2003 PER Conference (2004)

Effects on assessment caused by splits between belief and understanding
T. L. McCaskey, M. H. Dancy & A. Elby, in Proceedings of the 2003 Physics Education Research Conference, S. Franklin, J. Marx & K. Cummings (Eds.), 720, p 37-40, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics (2004). 

Abstract: We performed a new kind of FCI study to get at the differences between what students believe and what they think scientists believe. Students took the FCI in the standard way, and then made a second pass indicating “the answer they really believe” and “the answer they think a scientist would give.” Students split on a large number of the questions, with women splitting more often than men.

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