The MWCS is the most important test to date that has been designed to evaluate students’ understanding of four main topics in mechanical waves. It encompasses some concepts surrounding propagation, superposition, reflection, and standing waves within 22 multiple choice items.
data(MWCS)A data frame of students' responses on the following 22 MWCS multiple choice items.
MWCS1A student's response on the MWCS item number 1.
MWCS2A student's response on the MWCS item number 2.
MWCS3A student's response on the MWCS item number 3.
MWCS4A student's response on the MWCS item number 4.
MWCS5A student's response on the MWCS item number 5.
MWCS6A student's response on the MWCS item number 6.
MWCS7A student's response on the MWCS item number 7.
MWCS8A student's response on the MWCS item number 8.
MWCS9A student's response on the MWCS item number 9.
MWCS10A student's response on the MWCS item number 10.
MWCS11A student's response on the MWCS item number 11.
MWCS12A student's response on the MWCS item number 12.
MWCS13A student's response on the MWCS item number 13.
MWCS14A student's response on the MWCS item number 14.
MWCS15A student's response on the MWCS item number 15.
MWCS16A student's response on the MWCS item number 16.
MWCS17A student's response on the MWCS item number 17.
MWCS18A student's response on the MWCS item number 18.
MWCS19A student's response on the MWCS item number 19.
MWCS20A student's response on the MWCS item number 20.
MWCS21A student's response on the MWCS item number 21.
MWCS22A student's response on the MWCS item number 22.
Barniol, P. & Zavala, G. Mechanical waves conceptual survey: Its modification and conversion to a standard multiple-choice test. Phys Rev Phys Educ Res 12, 010107 (2016).
library(spheredata)
# Call the data from spheredata package
get("MWCS")
# Open the data
MWCS
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