{"id":335347,"date":"2016-12-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=cebdf2a1e46cf13877b61569b05dbc7c"},"modified":"2016-12-08T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"how-persistent-are-the-misconceptions-about-force-and-motion-held-by-college-students-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=335347","title":{"rendered":"How persistent are the misconceptions about force and motion held by college students?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this work is to study the effectiveness of our introductory mechanics instructions in<br \/>\nchanging students\u2019 misconceptions about Newtonian concepts. We gave the force concept inventory<br \/>\n(FCI) test to 341 of our students twice, before and after instructions. The data were analyzed using<br \/>\na method first reported by Mart\u00edn-Blas et al (2010 Eur. J. Eng. Educ . 35<br \/>\n[http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/03043797.2010.497552] 597<br \/>\n[http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/03043797.2010.497552] \u2013 606<br \/>\n[http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/03043797.2010.497552] ). We examined all of the known misconceptions<br \/>\nfound in the original paper by Hestenes et al (1992 Phys. Teach . 30<br \/>\n[http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1119\/1.2343497] 141 [http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1119\/1.2343497] \u2013 51<br \/>\n[http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1119\/1.2343497] ) and determined the dominant ones from students\u2019 incorrect<br \/>\nanswers for each of the 30 questions in the inventory. By comparing the d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this work is to study the effectiveness of our introductory mechanics instructions in<br \/>\nchanging students\u2019 misconceptions about Newtonian concepts. We gave the force concept inventory<br \/>\n(FCI) test to 341 of our students twice, before and&#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-335347","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\/335347","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=335347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}