Development of an Energy Concept Inventory

该项目开发了一项名为“能源概念清单”（ECI）的测试，以评估学生对能源概念的定性理解。ECI在设计和目的上与Force Concept Inventory （FCI）相似。为了便于使用，ECI采用多项选择的形式，迫使学生区分能源储存和转移的科学方面的常识选择。与FCI一样，ECI旨在用于从中学到研究生院各个年级的学生知识和学习情况的比较研究。此外，ECI评估了对化学、生物学和物理学至关重要的能量理解方面。

The project develops a test, called the Energy Concept Inventory (ECI), to assess student qualitative understanding of energy concepts. The ECI is similar in design and purpose to the Force Concept Inventory (FCI). For ease of use, the ECI has a multiple-choice format that forces discrimination of scientific aspects of energy storage and transfer from students' common sense alternatives. Like the FCI, the ECI is intended for use in comparative studies of student knowledge and learning at all grade levels from middle school to graduate school. Moreover, the ECI assesses aspects of energy understanding that are essential to chemistry and biology as well as physics.