ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS
Papers about Assessment
Learning Spaces Collaboratory, “Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learners”, 2013.
R Beichner, Yehudit Judy Dori, and John Belcher, “New Physics Teaching and Assessment: Laboratory and Technology Enhanced Active Learning,” in Handbook of College Science Teaching, edited by J. Mintzes and W. J. Leonard (National Science Teachers Association, Washington, D.C., In Press).
M. Dancy and R Beichner, “Impact of animation on assessment of conceptual understanding in physics,” Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 2 (2006).
*L. Ding, R. Chabay, B. A. Sherwood, and R Beichner, “Evaluating an electricity and magnetism assessment tool: Brief electricity and magnetism assessment,” Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 2 (2006).
*Paula Vetter Engelhardt and Robert J. Beichner, “Students’ understanding of direct current resistive electrical circuits,” American Journal of Physics 72 (1), 98-115 (2004).
Scott W. Bonham, Duane L. Deardorff, and Robert J. Beichner, “Comparison of student performance using web and paper-based homework in college-level physics,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 40 (10), 1050-1071 (2003).
Melissa Dancy, “But are they learning? Getting started in classroom evaluation,” Cell Biology Education 1, 87-94 (2002).
Duane Deardorff, Introductory physics students’ treatment of measurement uncertainty, North Carolina State University, 2001.
Rhett J. Allain, Investigating the relationship between student difficulties with the concept of electric potential and the concept of rate of change, PhD, North Carolina State University, 2001.
Melissa Dancy, Investigating Animations for Assessment with an Animated Version of the Force Concept Inventory, Ph. D., North Carolina State University, 2000.
Scott W. Bonham, Robert J. Beichner, Aaron Titus, and Larry Martin, “Educational research using web-based assessment systems,” Journal of Research on Computing in Education 33 (1), 28-44 (2000).
Jeffery M. Saul, Duane L. Deardorff, David S. Abbott, Rhett J. Allain, and Robert J. Beichner, “Evaluating introductory physics classes in light of the ABET criteria: An example from the SCALE-UP project,” in Annual Meeting of the American Association for Engineering Education (St. Louis, Missouri, 2000).
Aaron P. Titus, L. W. Martin, and Robert J. Beichner, “Web-based testing in physics education: Methods and opportunities,” Computers in Physics 12 (2), 117-123 (1998).
Paula Engelhardt, Examining Students’ Understanding of Electrical Circuits through Multiple-choice Testing and Interviews, PhD, North Carolina State University, 1997.
Robert J. Beichner, “The impact of video motion analysis on kinematics graph interpretation skills,” American Journal of Physics 64 (10), 1272-1277 (1996).
*Robert J. Beichner, “Testing student interpretation of kinematics graphs,” American Journal of Physics 62 (8), 750-762 (1994).
Assessment Instruments
Test of Understanding Graphs in Kinematics 4.0 (TUG-K)….coming soon….
Test of Understanding Graphs in Kinematics 2.6
Basic Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA)
Determining and Interpreting Resistive Electric Circuits Test (DIRECT)
Measurement and Uncertainty Quiz
Lots of other tests, some of which we have influenced, are available at AAPT’s PhysPort. There is a nice article about Assessment Instruments in the American Journal of Physics. Of the 50 instruments described in the paper, only seven earned a “Gold” rating. Of those seven, three were developed at NCSU.