{"id":50914,"date":"2015-02-20T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=f0dc16bdeb4cd8e48a1501bce9607692"},"modified":"2015-02-20T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T00:00:00","slug":"polarization-of-physics-on-global-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=50914","title":{"rendered":"Polarization of physics on global courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since October 2010, the Chemistry\u2013Biology Combined Major Program, an international course taught in<br \/>\nEnglish at Osaka University, has been teaching small classes (no more than 20 in size). We present<br \/>\ndata from the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) given to first-year classical mechanics students ( N<br \/>\n\u00a0=\u00a047 students over three years) pre and post score, for a class that predominantly uses interactive<br \/>\nengagement, such as MasteringPhysics. Our findings show a G -factor improved score of about\u00a0\u223c0.18,<br \/>\nwhich is marginally about the average of a traditional-based course. Furthermore, we analyze in<br \/>\ndetail a set of six questions from the FCI, involving the identification of forces acting on a body.<br \/>\nWe find that student answers tend to cluster about \u2018polarizing choices\u2019\u2014a pair of choices containing<br \/>\nthe correct choice and a wrong choice, with the latter corresponding to a superset of forces in the<br \/>\nformer. Our results are suggestive that students have a good idea of the right set of for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since October 2010, the Chemistry\u2013Biology Combined Major Program, an international course taught in<br \/>\nEnglish at Osaka University, has been teaching small classes (no more than 20 in size). We present<br \/>\ndata from the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) given&#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-50914","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\/50914","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=50914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}