Force Concept Inventory

David Hestenes, Malcolm Wells, and Gregg Swackhamer, The Physics Teacher, Vol. 30, March 1992, 141-158

Every student begins physics with a well-established system of commonsense beliefs about how the physical world works derived from years of personal experience. Over the last decade, physics education research has established that these beliefs play a dominant role in introductory physics. Instruction that does not take them into account is almost totally ineffective, at least for the majority of students.

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