New practices for administering and analyzing the results of concept inventories

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 205-212

  Steif, Paul S ^a,c   Hansen, Mary A ^b,d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept; Inventory; Statics

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; STATIC ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONCEPT INVENTORIES; CONCEPT LEVEL INFORMATION; UNIVERSITIES;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 34547321876     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2007.tb00930.x     Document Type: Article

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