Developing an energy assessment for elementary education majors

Foster, Thomas M.; Barnett, Daniel

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Developing an energy assessment for elementary education majors

written by Thomas M. Foster and Daniel Barnett

In support of an NSF-CCLI program, we developed a multiple-choice efficacy assessment for the energy concept. What makes this work novel amongst the sea of energy concept assessments is the intended audience: elementary and early childhood education majors. While these are smart and capable college students, their demographics require a different assessment than our engineering students. We will discuss the development of the assessment and our preliminary results.

Physics Education Research Conference 2011
Part of the PER Conference series
Omaha, Nebraska: August 3-4, 2011
Volume 1413, Pages 191-194

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Published: February 6, 2012

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Work and Energy Education - Basic Research - Assessment = Conceptual Assessment = Instruments - Sample Population = Instructor: Pre-service	- Upper Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional - Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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Mirror:: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3680027
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Available for purchase; A preprint of the work is available. A hard copy of the PERC 2011 proceedings is available for purchase from the AIP.
Restriction:: © 2011 American Institute of Physics
DOI:: 10.1063/1.3680027
NSF Number:: 0837417
PACSs:: 01.40.Fk; 01.40.gf; 01.40.jc
Keywords:: Assessment Development, Elementary Education Pre-service Teachers, Energy Concept, PERC 2011
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 24, 2012 by Lyle Barbato
Record Updated:: May 15, 2012 by Vince Kuo
Last Update when Cataloged:: February 6, 2012

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Foster, Thomas, and Daniel Barnett. "Developing an energy assessment for elementary education majors." Physics Education Research Conference 2011. Omaha, Nebraska: 2011. 191-194 Vol. 1413 of PER Conference. 16 Sep. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11844&DocID=2695>.

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