دورية أكاديمية
Measuring students’ conceptual understanding of wave optics: A Rasch modeling approach
العنوان: | Measuring students’ conceptual understanding of wave optics: A Rasch modeling approach |
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المؤلفون: | Vanes Mešić, Knut Neumann, Ivica Aviani, Elvedin Hasović, William J. Boone, Nataša Erceg, Vladimir Grubelnik, Ana Sušac, Džana Salibašić Glamočić, Marin Karuza, Andrej Vidak, Adis Alihodžić, Robert Repnik |
المصدر: | Physical Review Physics Education Research, Vol 15, Iss 1, p 010115 (2019) |
بيانات النشر: | American Physical Society, 2019. |
سنة النشر: | 2019 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Special aspects of education LCC:Physics |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Special aspects of education, LC8-6691, Physics, QC1-999 |
الوصف: | Even graduate physics students have many misconceptions about basic wave optics phenomena. This suggests that there is much room for improvement of the traditional wave optics curriculum. An effective way for initiating a curriculum change is to reconsider and revise the expected learning outcomes and corresponding assessment instruments. By systematically enriching our wave optics instruction and assessment with conceptual tasks, we may increase the probability of students actively engaging in learning the conceptual aspects of wave optics. In this paper, we present the process of developing an item bank for measuring understanding of wave optics in typical introductory physics courses at universities. Thereby, the Rasch modeling approach has been used. The development of the item bank has been guided by results from multiple expert and student surveys, as well as from group interviews and think aloud interviews. Altogether 65 multiple-choice items with a single correct answer and three distractors have been prepared for field testing. Until now, 35 out of 65 items have been field tested by means of a paper and pencil survey which included 188 participants from five universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia. The field test showed that 32 out of 35 items have good psychometric characteristics and that they may be very useful for uncovering students’ misconceptions in wave optics. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 2469-9896 |
Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2469-9896 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010115 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/ae23e945560644219e982280d472407f |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.23e945560644219e982280d472407f |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 24699896 |
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DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.010115 |