Building the ACS Exams Anchoring Concept Content Map for Undergraduate Chemistry
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- 作者：Kristen Murphy ; Thomas Holme ; April Zenisky ; Heather Caruthers ; Karen Knaus
- 刊名：Journal of Chemical Education
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：May 8, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：89
- 期：6
- 页码：715-720
- 全文大小：368K
- 年卷期：v.89,no.6(May 8, 2012)
- ISSN：1938-1328
文摘
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鈥?content knowledge growth over a four-year degree. The Exams Institute is undertaking the task of organizing content along an anchoring concept or 鈥渂ig ideas鈥?framework to facilitate this type of analysis.