期刊名称:Physical Review ST Physics Education Research
电子版ISSN:1554-9178
出版年度:2019
卷号:15
期号:2
页码:1-8
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020118
出版社:American Physical Society
摘要: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.