Representational Variant of the Force Concept Inventory (R-FCI)

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written by Pasi Nieminen, Antti Savinainen, and Jouni Viiri

Available Languages: English, Finnish

This 30-minute research-based multiple-choice test is designed to investigate students' ability to interpret multiple representations consistently in the context of four force concepts: Newton's first, second, and third laws, and gravitation.

The diagnostic exam contains 27 multiple-choice questions based on nine FCI items that have been redesigned using various representations (such as motion map, vectorial, and graphical). A summary of the survey's construction, analysis, reliability, and validity is available in Force Concept Inventory-based multiple-choice test for investigating students' representational consistency, Phys. Rev ST-PER 6 (2), 020109 (2010).

Additionally, an Excel file is provided so that instructors who wish to carry out the representational consistency analysis described in the aforementioned article may do so.

This assessment is free for use by instructors in their classroom. However, it takes years of development effort to create and validate reliable assessment instruments.

https://www.physport.org/assessments/RFCI

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Gravity - Newton's First Law - Newton's Second Law - Newton's Third Law Education Foundations - Assessment = Instruments - Problem Solving = Representational Use	- Lower Undergraduate	- Assessment Material = Test

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Access Rights:: Limited free access; This assessment is available to instructors.
Restriction:: © 2010 Pasi Nieminen, Antti Savinainen, and Jouni Viiri
This assessment is free for use by instructors in their classroom. However, it takes years of development effort to create and validate reliable assessment instruments. Therefore, the author requests that 1. students are not given test copies following examination; and 2. none of the questions are incorporated into web-based question delivery systems without adequate security to prevent printing or unauthorized access by students.
Keywords:: FCI, representational consistency
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created May 4, 2012 by Lyle Barbato
Record Updated:: June 19, 2015 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 1, 2010
Other Collections:: The PER-Central

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A summary of the survey's development, reliability, and validity is provided in P. Nieminen, A. Savinainen, and J. Viiri, " Force Concept Inventory-based multiple-choice test for investigating students' representational consistency," PRST-PER 6 (2), 020109 (2010).

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