Evidence on the coherence-pieces debate from the force concept inventory
- Autores
- Badagnani, Daniel; Petrucci, Diego; Cappannini, Osvaldo Mario
- Año de publicación
- 2018
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- We use force concept inventory (FCI) data to probe the consistency of commonsense physics as a knowledge system. The source of this data is the administration of the FCI to first-year science university students. Data quality was checked using item response theory and studying answer distributions for each question. We find apparently paradoxical results: depending on how the data is analysed, answers seem highly systematic or almost random-like. These results are compatible with others found in the literature and can be construed as arising either from a coherent knowledge system or from knowledge in pieces. We hypothesise as a possible source of this apparent contradiction that predictions and explanations use different resources: the former would use reflex, low-cost cognitive resources while the latter would involve conceptualisations. We show that the articulation of both resources may be crucial for expert thinking productivity (the ability to apply a theory to novel situations). We sketch some consequences of the proposed structure of commonsense thinking for teaching and further research.
Fil: Badagnani, Daniel. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Petrucci, Diego. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Cappannini, Osvaldo Mario. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina - Materia
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EXPLANATIONS IN COMMONSENSE PHYSICS
KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
PREDICTIONS IN COMMONSENSE PHYSICS - Nivel de accesibilidad
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Evidence on the coherence-pieces debate from the force concept inventoryBadagnani, DanielPetrucci, DiegoCappannini, Osvaldo MarioEXPLANATIONS IN COMMONSENSE PHYSICSKNOWLEDGE SYSTEMPREDICTIONS IN COMMONSENSE PHYSICShttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5We use force concept inventory (FCI) data to probe the consistency of commonsense physics as a knowledge system. The source of this data is the administration of the FCI to first-year science university students. Data quality was checked using item response theory and studying answer distributions for each question. We find apparently paradoxical results: depending on how the data is analysed, answers seem highly systematic or almost random-like. These results are compatible with others found in the literature and can be construed as arising either from a coherent knowledge system or from knowledge in pieces. We hypothesise as a possible source of this apparent contradiction that predictions and explanations use different resources: the former would use reflex, low-cost cognitive resources while the latter would involve conceptualisations. We show that the articulation of both resources may be crucial for expert thinking productivity (the ability to apply a theory to novel situations). We sketch some consequences of the proposed structure of commonsense thinking for teaching and further research.Fil: Badagnani, Daniel. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Petrucci, Diego. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Cappannini, Osvaldo Mario. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaIOP Publishing2018-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/93653Badagnani, Daniel; Petrucci, Diego; Cappannini, Osvaldo Mario; Evidence on the coherence-pieces debate from the force concept inventory; IOP Publishing; European Journal of Physics; 39; 1; 1-2018; 1-120143-0807CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/aa940finfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1088/1361-6404/aa940finfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T10:08:29Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/93653instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 10:08:30.238CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse |
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Evidence on the coherence-pieces debate from the force concept inventory |
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Evidence on the coherence-pieces debate from the force concept inventory |
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Badagnani, Daniel Petrucci, Diego Cappannini, Osvaldo Mario |
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We use force concept inventory (FCI) data to probe the consistency of commonsense physics as a knowledge system. The source of this data is the administration of the FCI to first-year science university students. Data quality was checked using item response theory and studying answer distributions for each question. We find apparently paradoxical results: depending on how the data is analysed, answers seem highly systematic or almost random-like. These results are compatible with others found in the literature and can be construed as arising either from a coherent knowledge system or from knowledge in pieces. We hypothesise as a possible source of this apparent contradiction that predictions and explanations use different resources: the former would use reflex, low-cost cognitive resources while the latter would involve conceptualisations. We show that the articulation of both resources may be crucial for expert thinking productivity (the ability to apply a theory to novel situations). We sketch some consequences of the proposed structure of commonsense thinking for teaching and further research. Fil: Badagnani, Daniel. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina Fil: Petrucci, Diego. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina Fil: Cappannini, Osvaldo Mario. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina |
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We use force concept inventory (FCI) data to probe the consistency of commonsense physics as a knowledge system. The source of this data is the administration of the FCI to first-year science university students. Data quality was checked using item response theory and studying answer distributions for each question. We find apparently paradoxical results: depending on how the data is analysed, answers seem highly systematic or almost random-like. These results are compatible with others found in the literature and can be construed as arising either from a coherent knowledge system or from knowledge in pieces. We hypothesise as a possible source of this apparent contradiction that predictions and explanations use different resources: the former would use reflex, low-cost cognitive resources while the latter would involve conceptualisations. We show that the articulation of both resources may be crucial for expert thinking productivity (the ability to apply a theory to novel situations). We sketch some consequences of the proposed structure of commonsense thinking for teaching and further research. |
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