{"id":345861,"date":"2016-12-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=73a6a42d847ae9256e5a81db9104161b"},"modified":"2016-12-29T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:00:00","slug":"developing-and-validating-a-conceptual-survey-to-assess-introductory-physics-students-understandingof-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=345861","title":{"rendered":"Developing and validating a conceptual survey to assess introductory physics students\u2019 understanding\r\nof magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Development of validated physics surveys on various topics is important for investigating the extent<br \/>\nto which students master those concepts after traditional instruction and for assessing innovative<br \/>\ncurricula and pedagogies that can improve student understanding significantly. Here, we discuss the<br \/>\ndevelopment and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey related to magnetism suitable for<br \/>\nintroductory physics courses. The survey was developed taking into account common students\u2019<br \/>\ndifficulties with magnetism concepts covered in introductory physics courses found in our<br \/>\ninvestigation and the incorrect choices to the multiple-choice questions were designed based upon<br \/>\nthose common student difficulties. After the development and validation of the survey, it was<br \/>\nadministered to introductory physics students in various classes in paper\u2013pencil format before and<br \/>\nafter traditional lecture-based instruction in relevant concepts. We compared the performance of<br \/>\nstudents on the survey &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development of validated physics surveys on various topics is important for investigating the extent<br \/>\nto which students master those concepts after traditional instruction and for assessing innovative<br \/>\ncurricula and pedagogies that can improve student &#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-345861","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\/345861","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=345861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}