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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about weight and mass when a property of an object changes. The probe is especially ...
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What Will Happen to the Weight?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about weight. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that the...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about gravity. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that gravi...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about how objects with different masses (or weights) behave in free fall where air r...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about gravity. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that objec...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about Earth's gravity. The probe is designed as a thought experiment to determine wh...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about pulleys. The probe is specifically designed to find out whether students think...
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The purpose of the assessment probe is to determine whether students can translate a motion diagram into a graph—a position versus time graph—to r...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas related to pulleys and mechanical advantage. The probe is specifically designed to i...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about center of mass. The probe is specifically designed to see if students recogniz...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about balancing. The probe is specifically designed to see if students recognize tha...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about levers and fulcrums. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether s...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about gears. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students use th...
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One of the primary difficulties that students experience in determining the speed of a moving object is differentiating between quantities and changes...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to determine whether students recognize that there is a variety of measurement units, described as ratios, tha...