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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Concept Inventory"”.
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Validating a concept inventory for cybersecurity
The validity of a concept inventory is imperative to its adoption by the education community. In this thesis, we evaluate the validity of the Cybersecurity Concept Inventory for assessing student knowledge of core cybersecurity concepts after a first course on the topic. Our evaluation involved …
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The development of a digital logic concept inventory
… education researchers commonly measure students' conceptual learning to compare how much different pedagogies improve learning. Conceptual knowledge is often preferred because all engineering courses should teach a fundamental set of concepts even if they emphasize design or analysis to different …
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An exploratory study with preliminary results : the development and evaluation of a genetics concept inventory
… the scientific literacy of current students. Concept inventories have been developed and used for the past fourteen years to assess non-science major student conceptual understanding of a content area. Inventories have been developed in the fields of physics, astronomy, chemistry and biology. …
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Atomic emission misconceptions as investigated through student interviews and measured by the Flame Test Concept Inventory
… that students have with some abstract concepts first introduced during chemistry classes. The abstract concept of atomic emission is formally introduced during secondary education in the U.S. science curriculum. The topic is re-introduced in the first year of, and elaborated upon …
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Rethinking the Force Concept Inventory: Developing a Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment to Measure Misconceptions in Newton's Laws
Student misconceptions in science are common and may be present even for students who are academically successful. Concept inventories, multiple-choice tests in which the distractors map onto common, previously identified misconceptions, are commonly used by researchers and educators to gauge the …
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Difficulty as a concept inventory design consideration: An exploratory study of the concept assessment tool for statics (CATS)
… problems depends greatly on developing deep conceptual knowledge that structures and relates the meaning of underlying principles. Concept inventories have emerged as a class of tests typically developed for use in higher education science and engineering courses. Concept Inventories (CIs) …
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STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDINGS OF ACID-BASE REACTIONS INVESTIGATED THROUGH THEIR CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES AND THE ACID-BASE REACTIONS CONCEPT INVENTORY
… making it a ripe area for research. Student misconceptions about acid-base reactions were studied using a four-phase semi-structured interview protocol. Students in high school, general chemistry 1 & 2, organic chemistry 1 & 2 and a graduate level organic chemistry seminar were asked to identify …
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CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND THE USE OF HAND-SKETCHING IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN
… "Mechanical Engineering Visual Design Mediums Concept Inventory" was created to begin to understand the current role of sketching and students' conceptual understanding of sketching and CAD within the Mechanical Engineering design process. Literature and previous research enriched the content …
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A Knowledge Map-Centric Feedback-Based Approach to Information Modeling and Academic Assessment
… have learned. This method uses comprehensive concept maps to depict all of the concepts and relationships an educator intends to cover and student maps to depict the subset of knowledge that students have mastered. Concept inventories are used as an assessment tool to determine, at the …
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Enhancing Learning of Recursion
… a collection of frequently repeated misconceptions, which allowed us to create a draft concept inventory that can be used to measure student's learning of basic recursion skills. We analyzed about 600 binary tree recursion programming exercises from CS3 exam responses. From these we …
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A short & sweet story of CHO
… a chemical education tool, a quantum chemistry concept inventory, whose aim is to understand misconceptions is also included in this dissertation.</p>
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Investigating the Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Georgia 6-12 Science Teachers in Relation to Conservation of Mass
… Law of Conservation of Matter is a crosscutting concept in science that has implications for all disciplines of science. Conservation of Matter concepts are interwoven into all middle school and high school science courses both within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Georgia …
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Explicit Reflection in an Introductory Physics Course
… the use and appropriately applying physical concepts across different problem contexts, and (2) enhanced physics understanding of students resulting in improved class performance. The intervention was embedded in the discussion component of an introductory, university physics course, and …
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Assessment of First-Year Engineering Students' Spatial Visualization Skills
… and validation of an Engineering Graphics Concept Inventory, and (3) an investigation into the relationship into the correlations between 3D modeling skills and performance on the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) and the Mental Cutting Test (MCT). The literature …
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Assessing assessment : how use of the concept of inventory of natural selection influences the instructional practices of an experienced biology professor and supplemental instruction leader
… Formative assessment tools such as concept inventories (CIs) could be valuable in moving toward such goals. A recent addition to biology education, CIs hold much promise for helping faculty to understand their students' preconceptions and therefore, how to design lessons to better …
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Making sense of making sense: A microgenetic multiple case study of five students’ developing conceptual compounds related to physics
… that science: ‘doesn’t make sense’. Different conceptualisations of learning are analysed leading to the development of the concept of making sense as the formation or modification of a conceptual compound in which concepts are related in a coherent causal system that may be transferred to …
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Computational Labs in Calculus: Examining the Effects on Conceptual Understanding and Attitude Toward Mathematics
… private institution on student outcomes of conceptual understanding of calculus and attitudes towards mathematics. The first manuscript addresses the changes in conceptual understanding through multiple-method research design, a quantitative survey given pre and post study and qualitative …
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First Steps of Putting Research into Practice: Utilizing Concept Inventories to Identify Biochemistry Misconceptions and the Development of a Guided Inquiry Activity to Correct the Identified Misconceptions
… or incorrect understanding of some of the concepts covered in the courses. Identification of these misconceptions is difficult, as it usually involves conducting an hour long one-on-one interview with a student. Concept inventories were developed as a way for professors to identify …
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Visualizing Algorithm Analysis Topics
… science curriculum. DSA courses emphasize concepts related to procedural dynamics and Algorithm Analysis (AA). These concepts are hard for students to grasp when conveyed using traditional textbook material relying on text and static images. Algorithm Visualizations (AVs) emerged as a …
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