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Direct linkOpitz, Ansgar; Heene, Moritz; Fischer, Frank – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
Education systems increasingly emphasize the importance of scientific reasoning skills such as "generating hypotheses" and "evaluating evidence." Despite this importance, we do not know which tests of scientific reasoning exist, which skills they emphasize, how they conceptualize scientific reasoning, and how well they are…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Science Process Skills, Science Instruction
Download full textBao, Lei; Redish, Edward F. – 2001
Multiple-choice tests such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) provide useful instruments to probe the distribution of student difficulties on a large scale. However, traditional analysis often relies solely on scores (number of students giving the correct answer). This ignores what can be significant and important information: the distribution…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedBarnett-Foster, Debora; Nagy, Philip – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Analysis of response strategies employed by 261 undergraduate chemistry students when answering multiple-choice and stem-equivalent constructed-response questions revealed no significant differences in types of solution strategies or types of errors across test format. However, analysis of student oral reports revealed a higher frequency of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Constructed Response, Educational Research, Educational Testing
