Building the ACS exams anchoring concept content map for undergraduate chemistry

• Autores: Kristen L. Murphy, Thomas A. Holme, April Zenisky, Heather Caruthers, Karen Knaus
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 89, Nº 6, 2012, págs. 715-720
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.