The development of an astronomy concept inventory (ACI)

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2011

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Elsevier

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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The aim of this study is to develop an Astronomy Concept Inventory (ACI) to assess undergraduate students' conceptual understanding of moon phases, moon and earth motion. ACI consists of 25 multiple choice questions with four distracters. The inventory was administered to 262 undergraduate students who took introduction to astronomy course. The data were analyzed by ITEMAN software program. The difficulty indices ranged from .45 to .92, and discrimination indices ranged from .21 to .59. The mean P value as difficulty index was found to be .66 for the test while alpha value for whole test was found as .80. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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3rd World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES) -- FEB 03-07, 2011 -- Bahcesehir Univ, Istanbul, TURKEY
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Astronomy Concept Inventory, Moon Phases, Moon and Earth Motion, Conceptual Understanding

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3rd World Conference On Educational Sciences - 2011

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