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The Calculus Concept Inventory— Measurement of the Effect of Teaching Methodology in Mathematics Jerome Epstein Introduction concepts that all faculty assumed students knew The Calculus Concept Inventory (CCI) is a test of at exit and that a semester of instruction made conceptual understanding (and only that—there remarkably little difference. More dramatic, the pre- is essentially no computation) of the most basic to-post test average normalized gains on the MDT principles of differential calculus. The idea of and FCI in Hake’s ([7], [8]) meta-analysis showed such a test follows the Mechanics Diagnostic Test a strong correlation with teaching methodology: (MDT, Halloun and Hestenes [11], [12]) and its the average for “interactive engagement” (IE) successor the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) in courses exceeded the average for “traditional” physics (Hestenes, Wells, and Swackhammer [14]; (T) courses by about two standard deviations. No Halloun et al. [13]; Hake [7], [8]), the last a test which other variable, including the pretest score, had has spawned a dramatic movement of reform in anywhere near this correlation with the gain. physics education and a large quantity of high Mathematics education is often mired in “wars” quality research. The MDT and the FCI showed between “back-to-basics” advocates and “guided- immediately that a high fraction of students in basic discovery” believers. There seems to be no physics emerged with little or no understanding of possibility of any resolution to this contest with- out hard, scient