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Using formative feedback to identify and support first year chemistry students with missing or misconceptions. A practice report

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posted on 2024-11-14, 03:42 authored by Gwen Lawrie, Anthony Wright, Madeleine Schultz, Timothy Dargaville, Glennys O'Brien, Simon Bedford, Mark Williams, Roy Tasker, Hayden Dickson, Christopher Thompson
Students entering tertiary studies possess a diverse range of prior experiences in their academic preparation for tertiary chemistry so academics need tools to enable them to respond to issues in diversity in conceptual models possessed by entering students. Concept inventories can be used to provide formative feedback to help students identify concepts that they need to address to improve construction of subsequent understanding enabling their learning. Modular, formative learning activities that can be administered inside or outside of class in first year chemistry courses have been developed. These activities address key missing and mis-conceptions possessed by incoming student. Engagement in these learning activities by students and academics will help shift the culture of diagnostic and formative assessment within the tertiary context and address issues around the secondary/tertiary transition. This diagnostic/intervention framework is currently being trialed across five Australian tertiary institutions encompassing a large heterogeneous sample of students.

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Lawrie, G., Wright, A., Schultz, M., Dargaville, T., O'Brien, G., Bedford, S., Williams, M., Tasker, R., Dickson, H. & Thompson, C. (2013). Using formative feedback to identify and support first year chemistry students with missing or misconceptions. A practice report. The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, 4 (2), 111-116.

Journal title

Student Success

Volume

4

Issue

2

Language

English

RIS ID

81167

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