PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2015
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Psychometric analysis of the Calculus Concept Inventory
Page: 1008
Concept inventories have become an increasingly popular way to measure conceptual understanding in STEM disciplines. The Force Concept Inventory (FCI; Hestenes, Wells and Swackhamer, 1992) was the first concept inventory to make a significant impact in the undergraduate education community, becoming widely used and significantly affecting the teaching of introductory hi physics. The FCI paved the way for the broad application of analyzing student conceptual understanding of the basic ideas in a STEM subject area (Hake, 1998a, 2007; Hestenes & Wells, 1992; Hestenes et al., 1992); concept inventories have been written for biology, chemistry, and astronomy.