written by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood

The Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA), developed by Chabay and Sherwood, assesses student understanding of basic electricity and magnetism concepts. It is written for college-level calculus-based introductory physics courses. The files are password protected; users who wish to access the assessment will need to contact the authors.

The reliability and discriminatory power of this assessment tool, has been tested. The results are available at: Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research: Volume 2, Issue 1, Page 7,
http://prst-per.aps.org/abstract/PRSTPER/v2/i1/e010105

• Download BEMA.zip - 1229kb Compressed File

Last Modified June 15, 2006

Attached is the Spanish translation of the BEMA instrument.

Translation: Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Language revision: Julio Benegas, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina;
Olivier Espinosa, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile; and Hugo
Alarcon, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.

• Download BEMAesp2008.zip - 1168kb Compressed File

This assessment may be used for educational purposes. The authors should be contacted for the password.

Published December 7, 2008
Last Modified January 29, 2009

This file has previous versions.