{"id":326659,"date":"2016-11-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=32737f95e9a39d03325b61532a47368a"},"modified":"2016-11-29T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","slug":"using-the-method-of-dominant-incorrect-answers-with-the-fci-test-to-diagnose-misconceptions-held-byfirst-year-college-students-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=326659","title":{"rendered":"Using the method of dominant incorrect answers with the FCI test to diagnose misconceptions held by\r\nfirst year college students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started this work with the goal of detecting misconceptions held by our students about force and<br \/>\nmotion. A total of 341 students participated in this study by taking the force concept inventory<br \/>\n(FCI) test both before and after receiving instructions about force or motion. The data from this<br \/>\nstudy were analysed using different statistical techniques with results from frequencies and the<br \/>\ndominant incorrect answer reported in this paper. All misconceptions reported in the original paper<br \/>\nof the designers of the FCI test (Hestenes et al 1992 Phys. Teach . 30 141\u201358) were examined and the<br \/>\nresults are reported. Only pre test results are reported in this paper leaving post data for future<br \/>\nwork. We used the modified version of the FCI containing 30 questions and therefore used the revised<br \/>\nlist of misconceptions. Problems with impetus and active force are among the most dominant ones<br \/>\nfound with the full list reported in this paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started this work with the goal of detecting misconceptions held by our students about force and<br \/>\nmotion. A total of 341 students participated in this study by taking the force concept inventory<br \/>\n(FCI) test both before and after receiving instructio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}