Investigation of first-year university students’ performance

The students enrolled in introductory physics courses at Loránd Eötvös University (ELTE) are tested with the Mechanics Baseline Test (MBT) since 2016. It is used as a pre-test at the beginning of the first semester and as a post-test at the beginning of the second one. In this study, an account is g...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2021-05, Vol.1929 (1), p.12089
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