Designing Diagnostic Assessments

Kraus, Pamela; Minstrell, Jim

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Designing Diagnostic Assessments

written by 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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Published: August 7, 2002

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education - Basic Research - Assessment = Instruments - Student Characteristics	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Instructor Guide/Manual - Reference Material = Research study

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Mirror:: https://doi.org/10.1119/perc.2002…
Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2002 Pamela A. Kraus, Jim Minstrell
DOI:: 10.1119/perc.2002.inv.002
Keywords:: PERC 2002, assessment tool development, diagnostic assessments, formative assessments
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created September 27, 2006 by Lyle Barbato
Record Updated:: February 16, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 7, 2002

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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=4322">Kraus, Pamela, and Jim Minstrell. "Designing Diagnostic Assessments." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho, August 7-8, 2002.</a>

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P. Kraus and J. Minstrell, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho, 2002, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4322&DocID=1142).

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P. Kraus and J. Minstrell, Designing Diagnostic Assessments, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho, 2002, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4322&DocID=1142>.

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Kraus, P., & Minstrell, J. (2002, August 7-8). Designing Diagnostic Assessments. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2002, Boise, Idaho. Retrieved April 23, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=4322&DocID=1142

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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).

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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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