Our first assignment for the modeling workshop was a pretest. I've taken this one before, but it's been a few years. I remember feeling very anxious the first time I took it. I had been teaching Physics for several years so I felt like I knew the material. It didn't take long before I was feeling pretty humbled by the questions. I think my score the first time around was somewhere in the low teens.
This time around I knew what to expect, but it's easy to see (and remember) how confusing the questions can be. Someone who is unsure of the answer can easily get bogged down reading through all the possible responses to find the correct one, especially because there are so many "common sense" answers mixed in. I like that each question makes the students think about the Physics concept and confront the misconceptions. I love that students can't just rely on some formulas and their calculators to guess their way to the correct answer.
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