When I was in physics grad school we used the Force Concept Inventory for assessing the intro level physics classes. It was always very interesting and showed t

When I was in physics grad school we used the Force Concept Inventory for assessing the intro level physics classes. It was always very interesting and showed that they were able to greatly increase understanding over the course of a few years by focusing on a few areas. I feel that (introductory) physics education has benefited greatly from education research, partly because data can be easily collected and at universities you can adapt and iterate on a semester (or annual) time scale. It would be nice if this model could be adapted to other areas, such as graduate physics, but the normal response is that grad students are supposed to be responsible for their own learning...