Formative Assessment in High School Chemistry Teaching: Investigating the Alignment of Teachers' Goals with Their Items

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1619-1625

  Sandlin, Benjamin ^a   Harshman, Jordan ^a   Yezierski, Ellen ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical Education Research; Gases; High School Introductory Chemistry; Stoichiometry; Testing Assessment; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944247401     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00163     Document Type: Article

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