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Assessment and Concept Inventories

Assessment and Concept Inventories

Scientific Reasoning

Lawson's Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning

Community

Chipuer, Heather M., and Grace M.H. Pretty. “A Review of the Sense of Community Index: Current Uses, Factor Structure, Reliability, and Further Development.” Journal of Community Psychology 27, no. 6 (November 1, 1999): 643–58. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6629(199911)27:6<643::AID-JCOP2>3.0.CO;2-B.

Rovai, Alfred P. “Development of an Instrument to Measure Classroom Community.” The Internet and Higher Education 5, no. 3 (2002): 197–211. doi:10.1016/S1096-7516(02)00102-1.

An updated version of the Rovai classroom community inventory: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096751604000545

Classroom Community Scale

You might also find Bandura’s work on sources of self-efficacy as a useful way of looking at “support” – it is nicely reviewed in: Usher, Ellen L., and Frank Pajares. “Sources of Self-Efficacy in School: Critical Review of the Literature and Future Directions.” Review of Educational Research 78, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 751–96.

doi:10.3102/0034654308321456.

Barry Fraser’s work on classroom learning environments might also be helpful, but generally is more K-12 relevant and more focused on physical environment. Not sure how much classmate or instructor support factors in, e.g.: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1009932514731 ;

http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-94-007-2150-0_186

A constructivist learning environment survey: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10984-005-7251-x

Teaching Effectiveness/ Self-Efficacy: http://stelar.edc.org/instruments/science-teaching-efficacy-belief-instrument-stebi

Resources for Assessing Engagement