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: 0717769
• 负责人: Thomas Holme
• 金额: $ 20万
• 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: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0717769&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 Sociey (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 using 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. The ACS Exams Institute 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 questions 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项目正在完成几项任务，这些任务将改善化学教育的评估实践。 通过美国化学社会（ACS）考试研究所存在的测试计划长期以来允许化学讲师将学生与国家规范进行比较。 该项目通过还使用锚定概念模板来分析ACS考试的内容，从而增强了此信息水平，该项目的内容是在整个本科课程中重复出现的。 然后，对齐研究使用此分析为讲师提供了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。 映射内容域的映射过程和将测试问题调整为这个映射的域都提供了重大的研究挑战，并提高了该项目的智力优势。 ACS考试学院每年提供100,000多名学生使用的考试，而国家科学数字图书馆Chemed DL的化学途径也是该项目的合作伙伴，因此，广泛影响不仅包括ACS考试，还包括通过化学DL的测试问题。另一个关键组成部分是ACS考试材料的移植到电子传递平台。 该过程不仅提供了增强的访问权限，因为电子交付的考试提供的即时数据收集改进了数据分析的所有方面，包括传统的规范参考信息以及与内容域的锚定概念相关的测试问题的信息。