Progress on Concept Inventory Assessment Tools
D. L. Evans, Gary L. Gray, Stephen Krause, Jay Martin, Clark Midkiff, Branislav M. Notaros, Michael Pavelich, David Rancour, Teri Reed-Rhoads, Paul Steif, Ruth Streveler, and Kathleen Wage
Abstract
The Foundation Coalition and others have been working on the
development of Concept Inventory (CI) assessment instruments patterned
after the well-known Force Concept Inventory (FCI) instrument of
Halloun and Hestenes. Such assessment inventories can play an
important part in relating teaching techniques to student learning.
Work first got started two years ago on CIs for the subjects of
thermodynamics, solid mechanics, signals and systems, and
electromagnetics. Last year work got underway on CIs for circuits,
fluid mechanics, engineering materials, transport processes, and
statistics. This year work began on chemistry, computer engineering,
dynamics, electronics, and heat transfer. This panel session will
discuss the progress on these concept inventories. More importantly,
the panelists will discuss the early student data that are emerging
from the process of continuous improvement of the instruments.
Results will be compared to the data collected by Hake that are
segregated by how the content was managed and delivered (e.g.,
"traditional" lecture mode compared to the "interactive engagement"
mode, as defined by Hake). Discussions of effective practices for use
in the development of CIs will also be discussed.
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