Cuesta College Physics 205A fall semester 2015     | UC-Davis Physics 7B summer session II 2002 | |
N | 85 students* | 76 students* |
low |  2 |  2 |
mean     | 10.0 +/- 5.5 |  9.1 +/- 4.3 |
high | 24 | 27 |
*Excludes students with negative informed consent forms (*.pdf)
Student's t-test of the null hypothesis results in p = 0.19 (t = 1.31, sdev = 4.93, degrees of freedom = 159), thus there is no significant difference between Cuesta College and UC-Davis FCI pre-test scores.
Later this semester (fall 2015), a comparison will be made between Cuesta College and UC-Davis FCI post-tests, along with their pre- to post-test gains.
D. Hestenes, M. Wells, and G. Swackhamer, Arizona State University, "Force Concept Inventory," Phys. Teach. 30, 141-158 (1992).
Development of the FCI, a 30-question survey of basic Newtonian mechanics concepts.
Previous FCI results:
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2014 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2013 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2012 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2011 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2009 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, spring semester 2009 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2008 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, spring semester 2008 pre-tests and post-tests.
- Cuesta College versus UC-Davis, fall semester 2007 pre-tests and post-tests.
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