Purpose

The Chemical Concepts Inventory (CCI) is designed to assess students’ alternate conceptions of chemistry topics typically encountered in high school or first-semester college chemistry courses.

Population

The CCI is commonly administered in high school and introductory college chemistry courses.

Typical Performance

We haven't performed an analysis of the LASSO data for typical performance, but the literature shows pretest scores around 47% and posttest scores around 51%. The raw gains are fairly small (4%).

Validity

The CCI was originally developed in 2002 and underwent significant additional validation in 2013 and 2014. The validation has focussed on college students but spans several institutions. While there are some items that were shown to be weaker than others, in general, the instrument was shown to be reasonably reliable and valid across introductory physics classes. Relevant articles are listed below:

• Mulford, D. R., & Robinson, W. R. (2002). An inventory for alternate conceptions among first-semester general chemistry students. Journal of chemical education, 79(6), 739.

• Barbera, J. (2013). A psychometric analysis of the chemical concepts inventory. Journal of Chemical Education, 90(5), 546-553.

• Schwartz, P., & Barbera, J. (2014). Evaluating the content and response process validity of data from the chemical concepts inventory. Journal of Chemical Education, 91(5), 630-640.

Research

There are over 75 publications that utilize the CCI. We recommend using Google Scholar and the citations listed under validation to find articles of interest.

Example LASSO Report

Please follow this link to our example report for concept inventories.

Similar Instruments

You may also be interested in: CCI1 and CCI2.

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