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Designing Diagnostic Assessments
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Pamela Kraus and Jim Minstrell
This paper, presented at the 2002 Physics Education Research Conference, describes the process of creating diagnostic assessments to assist teachers in formatively assessing their students. The process begins with the learning targets and ends with the creation of web-delivered sets of questions designed to diagnose students' facets of thinking. Early analysis from our first year of implementation indicates students are reading and thinking about the questions in their assignment. The researchers found that that, for certain topics, students' facets of thinking are highly context dependent.
Physics Education Research Conference 2002
Part of the PER Conference Invited Paper series Boise, Idaho: August 7-8, 2002
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![]() Kraus, Pamela, and Jim Minstrell. "Designing Diagnostic Assessments." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho, August 7-8, 2002. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4322&DocID=1142 (accessed 23 April 2025).
![]() Kraus, Pamela, and Jim Minstrell. "Designing Diagnostic Assessments." Physics Education Research Conference 2002. Boise, Idaho: 2002. of PER Conference Invited Paper. 23 Apr. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4322&DocID=1142>.
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Series = {PER Conference Invited Paper},
Month = {August 7-8},
Year = {2002}
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