Force and Motion Ideas

by: Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning research; thus the probe will tell you whether your students hold any of these research-identified, commonly held (incorrect) ideas about force and motion.

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