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Klein, P.; Küchemann, S.; Brückner, S.; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, O.; Kuhn, J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
The understanding of graphs and extraction of relevant information from graphs plays a major role in physics education and is also important in several related fields. Recently, Susac "et al." [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 14, 020109 (2018)] compared physics and psychology students' understanding of graphs in the contexts of physics and…
Descriptors: Graphs, College Freshmen, Physics, Science Education
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Dutke, Stephan; Barenberg, Jonathan – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2015
We introduce a specific type of item for knowledge tests, confidence-weighted true-false (CTF) items, and review experiences of its application in psychology courses. A CTF item is a statement about the learning content to which students respond whether the statement is true or false, and they rate their confidence level. Previous studies using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Psychology, Objective Tests
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Alviar-Martin, Theresa; Randall, Jennifer D.; Usher, Ellen L.; Engelhard, George – Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The authors examined the confidence of teachers from Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, and the United States (N = 1,375) to address civic topics with their students. The authors also used differential item functioning models to examine responses to items from the Teacher Confidence Scale of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Confidence Testing, Comparative Education