Category
Education
Document Type
Paper
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the trend in student’s Biomechanics Concept Inventory (BCI) performance over the past two decades (2003 - 2023) in the United States. The mean pre-, post-tests of BCI performance, and normalised gain (g) were extracted from published studies for analysis. Eight studies with 937 participants were examined. The Mann-Kendall tests were used to assess the trend of the datasets. No significant downward or upward trends were observed for both pre-tests (p = 1.0) and post-tests (p = 0.07) performance. However, there is an upward trend in students' normalized gains since 2003 (p = 0.02). Over the past twenty years, there has been no significant change in students' BCI entry and exit scores, while mean learning measure g had a large increase as more recent studies have focused on active learning (AL) strategies.
Recommended Citation
Hsieh, ChengTu; Wallace, Brian; and Knudson, Duane
(2024)
"TWENTY-YEAR TRENDS IN STUDENT READINESS, PERFORMANCE, AND LEARNING IN BIOMECHANICS,"
ISBS Proceedings Archive: Vol. 42:
Iss.
1, Article 97.
Available at:
https://commons.nmu.edu/isbs/vol42/iss1/97
