Examples from the Timss Test for Physics Specialists
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The TIMSS 1995 tests have not only an achievement aspect, but also an important diagnostic aspect. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the diagnostic perspective can be brought into focus when analysing the results of individual TIMSS items. Some TIMSS items (both multiple choice and free response items) from the Physics Specialists Test are studied in order to show their potential for understanding and exploring students' thinking and the nature of students' misconceptions. This paper also makes the claim that students' alternative conceptions do not constitute a consistent naive theory, and often so-called alternative conceptions could better be described as intuitive ideas, more or less unstructured, fragmented pieces of knowledge. Intuitive ideas do not need to be replaced but rather developed and refined.
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