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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about properties of matter. The probe is designed to find out which properties stu...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students thi...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize th...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about falling objects. The probe is designed to find out if students think the wei...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically des...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the mass of a gas. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recogniz...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density and buoyancy. The probe is designed to find out how students think a...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about floating and sinking. The probe is designed to find out if students think ch...
By Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possi...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about freezing point. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that...
By Page Keeley