Panel - tools to facilitate better teaching and learning: Concept inventories

Concept inventory use came to the education literature in 1985 through the first publication of the force concept inventory. Since that time, there have been multiple inventories developed in all areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. For the past three decades, adoption and utilization of the inventories has not progressed to the instrument's full potential. Participants will learn of the results of a recently held meeting called Assessing the State of STEM Concept Inventories: A National Workshop sponsored by the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation (DUE-0731232). In addition, group discussions will follow presentations that are designed to update persons on the status of concept inventories in each of the following areas; history in STEM areas, the writing and development, the related psychometric analysis and properties, and finally, the classroom implications.