Collaborative Research: Electronic Delivery and Criterion Referencing of Assessment Materials for Chemistry

合作研究：化学评估材料的电子传递和标准参考

• 批准号: 0717746
• 负责人: David Hart
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0717746&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Electronic; Delivery; Criterion

CHEMISTRY 12The project is completing several tasks that will improve assessment practices for chemistry education. Testing programs that have existed via the American Chemical Society (ACS) Exams Institute have long allowed chemistry instructors to compare students to national norms. This project is augmenting this level of information by also analyzing the content of ACS Exams against a mapping of the content domain of the subject along a template of anchoring concepts that recur throughout the undergraduate curriculum. Alignment research then uses this analysis to provide instructors with enhanced information about what chemistry students know about such topics as chemical bonding, chemical reactions, molecular structures and chemical equilibrium and several others. Both the process of mapping the content domain and aligning test questions to this mapped domain provide significant research challenges and advance the intellectual merit of this project. ACS Exams provides exams used by over 100,000 students annually, and the Chemistry Pathway of the National Science Digital Library, ChemED DL, is also a partner on this project, so the broad impact includes not only ACS Exams but also test question available via ChemED DL. The other key component is the porting of ACS Exams materials to an electronic delivery platform. This process provides more than enhanced access because the instant data collection afforded by electronically delivered exams improves all facets of the data analysis, including the traditional norm-referenced information and the criterion-referenced information relating test questions to the anchoring concepts of the content domain.

化学 12该项目正在完成多项任务，以改进化学教育的评估实践。 美国化学会 (ACS) 考试研究所的测试项目长期以来一直允许化学教师将学生与国家标准进行比较。 该项目还通过根据整个本科课程中反复出现的锚定概念模板对主题内容领域的映射来分析 ACS 考试的内容，从而增强了这一信息水平。 然后，比对研究使用此分析为教师提供有关化学学生对化学键、化学反应、分子结构和化学平衡等主题的了解的增强信息。映射内容域和将测试问题与该映射域对齐的过程都提供了重大的研究挑战，并提高了该项目的智力价值。 ACS Exams 每年提供超过 100,000 名学生使用的考试，而国家科学数字图书馆的化学通路 ChemED DL 也是该项目的合作伙伴，因此广泛的影响不仅包括 ACS Exams，还包括通过 ChemED DL 提供的试题。另一个关键部分是将 ACS 考试材料移植到电子交付平台。 该过程提供的不仅仅是增强的访问，因为电子考试提供的即时数据收集改进了数据分析的各个方面，包括传统的规范参考信息和将测试问题与内容域的锚定概念相关的标准参考信息。