*see details about the individual assessments in the table below
Assessment (Electronic or Paper) | Fall 2013 PRE | Fall 2013 POST | Spring 2014 PRE | Spring 2014 Post |
MPEX/ECLASS (E) |
Split class-- even student IDs: ELCASS odd student IDs: MPEX |
Split class-- even student IDs: ELCASS odd student IDs: MPEX
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Split class-- even student IDs: ELCASS odd student IDs: MPEX
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Split class-- even student IDs: ELCASS odd student IDs: MPEX
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FMCE (P) | Paper - 1st lab | Paper - last lab | NA | NA |
Thermo (P) | Paper - 1st lab | NA | NA | Paper - last lab |
Perceptions of Interdisciplinary Bridges (E) | All students | All Students | All Students | All students |
End of term survey (E) | NA | All students | NA | All students |
Assessment | Description | Purpose | Given Previously? | To Give in FL13 - SP14 |
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Multiple-Choice: Pre/Post |
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FMCE |
47 items |
Research-based evaluation of force and motion. Provides a comparison for student success in Newtonian mechanics with other courses and prior versions of Joe's class. | FL11, FL12 |
FL13 Pre/Post |
BEMA/CSEM (modified for only electricity) |
A combination of two research validated instruments that explore the conceptual understanding of electricity. Potentially provides a comparison between other physics courses and this version of a physics course. (To make this useful we would likely have to look for particular comparison groups because it's not an assessment traditionally used and published about.) |
SP12 | No. | |
MPEX
Interdisciplinary cluster |
33 items |
Research-based attitudinal survey designed to assess students' expectations of how physics is done, what it means to learn physics, and how they expect the course to unfold. Provides a comparison for students data with prior versions of Joe's class. Split with 1/2 of the class. Other half is getting E-CLASS |
FL11, SP12 FL12, SP13 |
FL13 Pre/Post & SP14 Pre/Post |
E-CLASS
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31 items |
A research-based survey from the University of Colorado designed to assess student attitudes about doing experiments in physics labs. Not written for IPLS classes specifically, this survey allows us to compare with other E-CLASS users. |
SP12 FL 12, SP13 |
FL13 Pre/Post & SP14 Pre/Post |
Thermo Questions |
14 items |
A mixture of items from research-based non-IPLS thermodynamic conceptual evaluations and a few items taken directly from our course, or written by the research team. Intended to answer the question about whether our students are improving in their conceptual understanding of thermodynamics.
Pre/Post over the year. |
SP13 |
FL13 Pre SP 14 Post |
Perceptions of
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20 items? |
A new survey that the research team developed to that examine how students see (1) the connectedness of disciplines to one another (2) the relevance of mathematics to biology and physics, and (3) the relevance of simple models to biology and physics. |
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Surveys: mixture of open-ended and multiple choice |
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End of term survey
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Varies between 6 items (FL 12) and 22 items (SP 13) |
These surveys are designed by the research team to probe course-wide a range of claims around (1) classroom norms, (2) emergent claims from case-studies, (3) student views on the relevance of the class to other parts of their lives. The survey has changed each semester in response to the research questions of primary interest.
Also includes multiple-choice & ranking questions about the laboratories.
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FL11, SP12 FL12, SP13 |
FL13 Post & SP14 Post |