{"id":1685,"date":"2015-07-04T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T10:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2015-07-04T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T11:01:01","slug":"gender-differences-on-force-concept-inventory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Gender differences on force concept inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heals of my last post, reporting on work which did not provide support for the previous finding that men and women perform differentially on different types of assessed tasks, I bring you a very interesting finding from work done at the University of Hull (with Ross Galloway from the University of Edinburgh, and me). David Sands from Hull and two of his students came to the OU on Thursday and gave a presentation which is to be repeated at \u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/girep2015.ifd.uni.wroc.pl\/\">GIREP-EPEC<\/a>\u00a0conference in Poland\u00a0next week.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeking to investigate whether findings from use of the well-established force concept inventory (FCI) (Hestenes et al, 1992), are replicated when the questions are asked as free text rather than multiple choice questions. Free text versions of the questions have been trialed at Hull and Edinburgh, and the next step is to attempt to write automatically marked versions of these.<\/p>\n<p>However, the interesting finding for now is that whilst in general students perform in a similar way on the free text and multiple choice version of the FCI, there are some variations in the detail. In particular, whilst men outperform women in the MCQ version of the FCI \u00a0(Bates etc al., 2013) it seems that the gender difference may be reduced or even reversed with the free text version. We don&#8217;t have enough responses yet to be sure, but watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>Bates, S., Donnelly, R., MacPhee, C., Sands, D., Birch, M., &amp; Walet, N. R. (2013). Gender differences in conceptual understanding of Newtonian mechanics: a UK cross-institution comparison. <em>European Journal of Physics<\/em>, 34(2), 421-434<\/p>\n<p>Hestenes, D., Wells, M., &amp; Swackhamer, G. (1992). Force concept inventory. <em>The Physics Teacher<\/em>, 30(3), 141-158.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heals of my last post, reporting on work which did not provide support for the previous finding that men and women perform differentially on different types of assessed tasks, I bring you a very interesting finding from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,305],"tags":[175,441],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-force-concept-inventory-2","category-gender","tag-force-concept-inventory","tag-gender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}