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Relevant CAT: ConcepTests

Discipline: Chemistry

Description:
The American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Education offers a library of Conceptual Questions (or CQs) in their Journal of Chemical Education OnLine that would be useful as ConcepTest questions. The site offers questions in a variety of topics, techniques for creating CQs, and accepts submissions of CQs.


Example CQ from the library of chemistry Conceptual Questions
Gases can be compressed because
  1. gas molecules are in constant motion.
  2. gas molecules move in straight lines between collisions with the walls of the container.
  3. the size of a gas molecule is very small compared to the space between molecules.
  4. there are no forces of attraction between gas molecules.
  5. gas molecules slow down when they become cooler.


Tool:

The set of chemical conceptual questions is available at the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Education On-Line: http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCEWWW/Features/CQandChP/CQs/CQIntro.html

Authors:
Many authors, not listed on the JCE On-Line site.


Selected References:
Journal of Chemical Education On-Line: Library of Conceptual Questions. American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education. 13 December 2001. http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCEWWW/Features/CQandChP/CQs/CQIntro.html

Bowen, C. W. & Bunce, D. M. (1997) Testing for Conceptual Understanding in General Chemistry. The Chemical Educator. 2 (2).


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