Measurement is a critical component of chemistry education research and practice. High quality measurement instruments (e.g., surveys, concept inventories, etc.) are necessary for many aspects of chemistry education including assessing the impact of pedagogical changes and understanding student experiences. Identifying the right instrument for each context is important to ensure the data collected can be used to draw meaningful conclusions. Sometimes this requires developing a new instrument, but there are also benefits to using existing instruments particularly when evidence has been provided for the quality of data collected using the instrument (i.e., validity and reliability).

This talk will highlight three strands of research in the Komperda group focused around the central theme of measurement: 1) how to provide and evaluate different types of data quality evidence, 2) examples of our work examining data quality evidence for a student motivation instrument, and 3) a recently funded NSF project working to compile instruments and their associated data quality evidence into a centralized database available to the broader chemistry education community.

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