Force Concept Inventory-based multiple-choice test for investigating students’ representational consistency

This study investigates students’ ability to interpret multiple representations consistently (i.e., representational consistency) in the context of the force concept. For this purpose we developed the Representational Variant of the Force Concept Inventory (R-FCI), which makes use of nine items from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pasi Nieminen, Antti Savinainen, Jouni Viiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2010-08-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.6.020109