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| Abstract Title: | Investigating Students' Difficulties in Calculus-Based EM Using MCQ Tests: Preliminary Study |
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| Abstract: | In this preliminary study, we investigate students' difficulties in understanding basic concepts associated with Coulomb's force and Gauss's Law in the calculus-based freshman electricity and magnetism (EM) course at the American University in Cairo (AUC). By comparing students results to instructors' expectations for multiple-choice test problems, which were administered over recent years at AUC, one may pinpoint not only misconceptions and the concepts that students find challenging, but also those concepts which appear easy from the instructor's point of view and are not so easy from the students' point of view. This work is the start of a long study that covers a series of topics of freshman EM at AUC using item analysis to evaluate the multiple-choice answers of each question as an assessment tool for our teaching effectiveness. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session I |
| Poster Number: | A52 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Mohammad AlFiky The American University in Cairo AUC Avenue P.O.Box 74 School of Sciences and Engineering, Physics Department New Cairo, Non U.S. 11835 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Karim Addas Same affiliation |
