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Description
The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) is a well-established physics education assessment tool used to evaluate students’ comprehension of elementary mechanics principles. While it can be used to analyse the effectiveness of instruction if deployed as a pre- and post-test, we utilise the FCI here as pre-test only, to extract insights into first-year students’ (mis)conceptions of Newtonian mechanics as they enter university. In this preliminary study, we tested 337 students enrolled at the University of Johannesburg in 2022, across five introductory physics courses, and correlated their responses with their matric marks and other global details. All subsequent data analysis anonymised the data, where we focussed on their responses to six “polarising” questions on the FCI test, for which the presence of a correct and a mostly correct answer allows for a clear demonstration of persistent misconceptions.
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