ERIC Number: EJ998959
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Publication Date: 2012-Jun
Pages: 6
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Building the ACS Exams Anchoring Concept Content Map for Undergraduate Chemistry
Murphy, Kristen; Holme, Thomas; Zenisky, April; Caruthers, Heather; Knaus, Karen
Journal of Chemical Education, v89 n6 p715-720 Jun 2012
The ability to coherently assess content knowledge throughout an entire undergraduate career represents a significant advantage for programmatic assessment strategies. Chemistry, as a discipline, has an unusual tool in this regard because of the nationally standardized exams from the ACS Exams Institute. These exams are norm-referenced and allow chemistry departments to make comparisons between the performance of their own students relative to national samples; however, currently there appears to be no systematic means for noting students' content knowledge growth over a four-year degree. The Exams Institute is undertaking the task of organizing content along an anchoring concept or "big ideas" framework to facilitate this type of analysis. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.)
Descriptors: College Science, Chemistry, Undergraduate Study, Scientific Concepts, Science Tests, Standardized Tests, Development, Intellectual Disciplines, Course Content, Knowledge Level, Intellectual Development, Student Development, Student Evaluation, Norm Referenced Tests
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