Using Technology to Accelerate the Construction of Concept Inventories - Latent Semantic Analysis and the Biology Concept Inventory

Kathy Garvin-Doxas, Michael Klymkowsky, Isidoros Doxas, Walter Kintsch

2014

Abstract

Concept Inventories are multiple choice instruments that map students’ conceptual understanding in a given subject area. They underpin some of the most effective teaching methods in science education, but they are labour intensive and expensive to construct, which limits their wide use in instruction. We describe how we use Latent Semantic Analysis to accelerate the construction of Concept Inventories in general, and the Biology Concept Inventory in particular.

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Garvin-Doxas K., Klymkowsky M., Doxas I. and Kintsch W. (2014). Using Technology to Accelerate the Construction of Concept Inventories - Latent Semantic Analysis and the Biology Concept Inventory . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-021-5, pages 301-308. DOI: 10.5220/0004957403010308


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu14,
author={Kathy Garvin-Doxas and Michael Klymkowsky and Isidoros Doxas and Walter Kintsch},
title={Using Technology to Accelerate the Construction of Concept Inventories - Latent Semantic Analysis and the Biology Concept Inventory},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={301-308},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004957403010308},
isbn={978-989-758-021-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Using Technology to Accelerate the Construction of Concept Inventories - Latent Semantic Analysis and the Biology Concept Inventory
SN - 978-989-758-021-5
AU - Garvin-Doxas K.
AU - Klymkowsky M.
AU - Doxas I.
AU - Kintsch W.
PY - 2014
SP - 301
EP - 308
DO - 10.5220/0004957403010308