TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating students' seriousness during selected conceptual inventory surveys
AU - Waters, David P.
AU - Amarie, Dragos
AU - Booth, Rebecca A.
AU - Conover, Christopher
AU - Sayre, Eleanor C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
PY - 2019/8/26
Y1 - 2019/8/26
N2 - Conceptual inventory surveys are routinely used in education research to identify student learning needs and assess instructional practices. Students might not fully engage with these instruments because of the low stakes attached to them. This paper explores tests that can be used to estimate the percentage of students in a population who might not have taken such surveys seriously. These three seriousness tests are the pattern recognition test, the easy questions test, and the uncommon answers test. These three tests are applied to sets of students who were assessed either by the Force Concept Inventory, the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism, or the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment. The results of our investigation are compared to computer simulated populations of random answers.
AB - Conceptual inventory surveys are routinely used in education research to identify student learning needs and assess instructional practices. Students might not fully engage with these instruments because of the low stakes attached to them. This paper explores tests that can be used to estimate the percentage of students in a population who might not have taken such surveys seriously. These three seriousness tests are the pattern recognition test, the easy questions test, and the uncommon answers test. These three tests are applied to sets of students who were assessed either by the Force Concept Inventory, the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism, or the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment. The results of our investigation are compared to computer simulated populations of random answers.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020118
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020118
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074404668
SN - 2469-9896
VL - 15
JO - Physical Review Physics Education Research
JF - Physical Review Physics Education Research
IS - 2
M1 - 020118
ER -