The Development of a Standardized Assessment for Introductory Physics Courses

物理学(13)智力价值：该项目正在开始开发和测试一项标准评估，以衡量学生对物理的理解。这个项目中的评估比现有的标准评估更具包容性，可以跨学院和大学使用，以帮助评估传统和非传统教学的物理课程的有效性。目前还有其他标准的评估工具，如部队概念量表(FCI)或部队和运动概念评估(FMCE)，但需要更全面的评估，以测试其他领域和学生的技能没有包括在目前的评估。本项目的标准化考试旨在a)适合评估传统和非传统课程；B)包括不同形式的问题(如自由回答、多项选择、基于计算机的问题)和不同问题类型(如概念性、多步骤、排序任务、背景丰富的问题和图表问题)，根据正在评估的内容选择问题的形式和问题类型；c)以物理教育研究为基础；d)涵盖为期两个学期的物理课程所涵盖的主题。这样的考试正在这个项目中试行。更深远的影响：物理课程有多种授课形式。除了包括更多的主题外，考试还包括一些技能，比如实验室和建模技能，以及物理学背景下的批判性思维，这些技能构成了对学生学习的更广泛衡量标准。

Physics (13) Intellectual merit: The project is beginning the development and testing of a standard assessment to measure student understanding of physics. The assessment in this project is more inclusive than existing standard assessments and can be used across colleges and universities to help evaluate the effectiveness of both traditionally and non-traditionally taught physics courses. There are currently other standard assessment instruments available, such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) or the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE), However, a more comprehensive assessment is needed in order to test other areas and student skills that are not included in current assessments.The standardized exam in this project aims to a) be appropriate for assessing both traditional and non-traditional courses; b) include problems of different formats (e.g. free response, multiple choice, computer-based) and of different problem types (e.g. conceptual, multi-step, ranking tasks, context-rich problems, and graphing problems), choosing the format and problem type based on what is being assessed; c) be based on physics education research; d) encompass topics covered in a two-semester physics course. Such an exam is being piloted in this project.Broader impacts: Physics courses are taught in many formats. In addition to including more topics, the exam is including skills, such as laboratory and modeling skills and critical thinking in the context of physics, that constitute a broader measure of student learning.