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ConcepTest Questions Created By Students For Students: Improving Student Learning And Addressing A Need In Process Control

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Assessment in Chemical Engineering Education

Page Count

8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41395

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https://strategy.asee.org/41395

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338

Paper Authors

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Lucas Landherr Northeastern University

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Chemical engineering teaching professor at Northeastern University, conducting research on comics and videos as visual learning tools

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Abstract

ConcepTest questions are frequently used in chemical engineering instruction, in part because of their availability through learning repositories like LearnChemE.com and AIChE Concept Warehouse. ConcepTests evaluate the readers’ understanding by integrating the concepts into questions that force the learners to evaluate their own arguments for certain multiple choice answers while selecting one final answer. Thus, the learners’ considered reasoning before selecting an answer allows for evaluation of conceptual understanding. However, few ConcepTests have been developed for Process Control courses.

As an extra credit assignment in a Process Control course at Northeastern University, students were given the opportunity to write ConcepTest questions of their own for use with future iterations of students. Students had to develop multiple choice questions with detailed solutions, and were allowed to develop the ConcepTests with respect to any concepts in the course. Nearly 90 students out of almost 260 over four semesters of the course developed questions that were then used throughout the following semester. This study discusses the range of questions created, the benefit of having students develop their own questions, and their implementation in future semesters.

Landherr, L. (2022, August), ConcepTest Questions Created By Students For Students: Improving Student Learning And Addressing A Need In Process Control Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41395

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