Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Summary of Two Workshops (2011) / Chapter Skim
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5 Assessment to Guide Teaching and Learning
5 Assessment to Guide Teaching and Learning
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discussed concept inventories in the sciences. She explained that concept inventories are multiple-choice assessments that are designed to diagnose areas of conceptual difficulty prior to instruction and evaluate changes in conceptual understanding related to a specific intervention (Libarkin, 2008)
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After that, an external team of science educators, psychometricians, and geologists reviewed the instrument. Using information from students and the external reviewers, the developers created and field-tested a pilot concept inventory.
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observed that although engineering lags behind science in terms of developing concept inventories, the few engineering concept inventories available are increasingly being used for such purposes as accreditation, grant proposals, and grant project accountability. In addition, she explained that engineering faculty members are beginning to use concept inventories to facilitate changes in pedagogy aimed at increasing student learning.
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To this end, Reed-Rhoads and her colleagues created a community of inventory developers, faculty members, and students called ciHUB (short for concept inventory hub) to provide access to resources that can facilitate collaboration and the use of research-based tools to improve instruction.
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Designed to fit within the constraints imposed by large lecture-based courses, the research-based tutorials foster the development of reasoning skills and conceptual understanding. Tutorial development depends on systematic investigations of student learning at the beginning of, during, and after instruction, including ongoing individual student interviews to probe their understanding in depth (Heron, Shaffer, and McDermott, 2008)
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She explained that the tutorials and other research-based instructional materials are most successful when the developers invest sustained effort in their continuous improvement and in supporting adopters. She ended by noting that the growth in STEM departments of groups and individuals who devote their scholarly effort to conducting research on teaching and learning in the science disciplines is the truly promising practice in STEM education (Heron, Shaffer, and McDermott, 2008)
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Heidi Schweingruber asked the concept inventory developers to elaborate on the link between concept inventories and instructional change. Cummings responded that the University of Washington Physics Education Research Group gets feedback on strategies that work and do not work to foster conceptual understanding and uses that feedback to develop curriculum materials.
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