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How Do You Know if They're Getting It? Writing Assessment Items that Reveal Student Understanding
written by Patrick Sean Smith
This workshop covers the process of creating a multiple choice assessment to reveal student thinking. Guidelines for creating questions and methods for assessing their usefulness are presented. The importance of research-based distractors and student interviews to explore understanding is stressed.
2008 PhysTEC Conference
Part of the PhysTEC Annual Conference series
Austin, TX: February 28 - March 1, 2008
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© 2008 Patrick Sean Smith
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assessment, multiple choice test, revealing physics understanding, test creation, writing in physics
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P. Smith, , presented at the 2008 PhysTEC Conference, Austin, TX, 2008, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7208&DocID=374).
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P. Smith, How Do You Know if They're Getting It? Writing Assessment Items that Reveal Student Understanding, presented at the 2008 PhysTEC Conference, Austin, TX, 2008, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7208&DocID=374>.
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Smith, P. (2008, February 28 - March 1). How Do You Know if They're Getting It? Writing Assessment Items that Reveal Student Understanding. Paper presented at 2008 PhysTEC Conference, Austin, TX. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7208&DocID=374
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Smith, Patrick Sean. "How Do You Know if They're Getting It? Writing Assessment Items that Reveal Student Understanding." Paper presented at the 2008 PhysTEC Conference, Austin, TX, February 28 - March 1, 2008. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7208&DocID=374 (accessed 25 April 2024).
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Smith, Patrick Sean. "How Do You Know if They're Getting It? Writing Assessment Items that Reveal Student Understanding." 2008 PhysTEC Conference. Austin, TX: 2008. of PhysTEC Annual Conference. 25 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7208&DocID=374>.
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@inproceedings{ Author = "Patrick Sean Smith", Title = {How Do You Know if They're Getting It? Writing Assessment Items that Reveal Student Understanding}, BookTitle = {2008 PhysTEC Conference}, Address = {Austin, TX}, Series = {PhysTEC Annual Conference}, Month = {February 28 - March 1}, Year = {2008} }
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