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102Chapter 4. Multiple Choice Concept Tests: The Force Concept inventory (FCI) I. Chapter OVERVIEW In the early 1980s, McDermott,1 Viennot,2 and other physics education researchers3, 4 found that each student comes into a physics course not as a blank slate but brings into the classroom a system of common sense beliefs and intuitions about how the world works derived from extensive personal experience (this is discussed in more detail in Chapter 2). Furthermore, they found that these common sense beliefs were very stable and often incompatible with the physics being taught in the introductory course. Traditional instruction does little to change these beliefs and they cause some students to misinterpret the course material.

102 Chapter 4. Multiple Choice Concept Tests: The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) I. CHAPTER OVERVIE W In the early 1980s, McDermott, 1 Viennot, 2 and other physics education researchers 3, 4 found that each student comes into a physics course not as a blank sl ate but brings into the classroom a system of common sense beliefs and …

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