Teaching assistants’ performance at identifying common introductory student difficulties in mechanics revealed by the Force Concept Inventory

The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) has been widely used to assess student understanding of introductory mechanics concepts by a variety of educators and physics education researchers. One reason for this extensive use is that many of the items on the FCI have strong distractor choices which correspon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexandru Maries, Chandralekha Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-05-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.010131