NUE: Nanoscience Based Supplementary Items for ACS Exams Institute Assessment Materials

NUE：基于纳米科学的 ACS 考试研究所评估材料补充项目

• 批准号: 0407378
• 负责人: Thomas Holme
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0407378&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NUE; Nanoscience; Based; Supplementary; Items

This Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education (NUE) award to Professor Thomas A Holme of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee is made by the Division of Chemistry in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the Division of Undergraduate Education in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources to develop multiple choice assessment items that test student knowledge of chemistry content found in traditional subdisciplines, but uses nanoscience examples. These items will be collected into a supplementary nanoscience-based items booklet to be published by the Examinations Institute of the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society. These booklets will be printed and provided free of charge to educators that order traditional exams in General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. To facillitate the use of these questions as complements to or supplements in the traditional exams, an interactive web site will also be developed that allows users to determine norms for exams adjusted by the use of the nanoscience based items (based on items statistics for all items involved.) The intellectual merit of this project lies largely in the development and analysis of these items. The major task of writing and editing the items will be carried out by a committee of volunteer educators. Once items have been written they will be trial tested, and the results of these trials will be subjected to statistical analysis. These analyses will allow for determination of what types of nanoscience content provide difficulties for student and the determination if any items operate differentially within definable subgroups of students. The broader impact of the project is related primarily to this differential item functioning (DIF) analysis. As part of the development of the proposed assessment instrument, DIF will be investigated, and, if found, studied further to elucidate ways in which nanoscience related content presents learning barriers for definable ethnic or gender groups. Such information can help address issues of underrepresented minorities in science by determining better ways to present nanoscience related content for these groups. The proposal for this award was received in response to the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education announcement, NSF 03-044, category NUE.

授予威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校 Thomas A Holme 教授的本科生教育纳米技术奖 (NUE) 由数学和物理科学局化学司以及教育和人力资源局本科生教育司颁发，旨在开发多项选择评估项目，测试学生对传统分支学科中化学内容的了解，但使用纳米科学示例。这些项目将被收集到由美国化学会化学教育部考试研究所出版的基于纳米科学的补充项目手册中。这些小册子将被印刷并免费提供给订购普通化学、有机化学、物理化学和无机化学传统考试的教育工作者。为了便于使用这些问题作为传统考试的补充或补充，还将开发一个交互式网站，允许用户确定通过使用基于纳米科学的项目（基于所有涉及项目的项目统计数据）调整的考试规范。该项目的智力价值主要在于这些项目的开发和分析。编写和编辑这些项目的主要任务将由志愿者教育工作者委员会执行。一旦项目被写入，它们将被进行试验测试，并且这些试验的结果将受到统计分析。这些分析将允许确定哪些类型的纳米科学内容给学生带来困难，并确定是否有任何项目在可定义的学生亚组中存在差异。该项目更广泛的影响主要与差异项目功能 (DIF) 分析有关。作为拟议评估工具开发的一部分，将对 DIF 进行调查，如果发现，将进一步研究，以阐明纳米科学相关内容给可定义的种族或性别群体带来学习障碍的方式。 此类信息可以通过确定更好的方式为这些群体呈现纳米科学相关内容，帮助解决科学领域代表性不足的少数群体的问题。 该奖项的提案是为了响应纳米科学与工程教育公告 NSF 03-044，NUE 类别而收到的。