Purpose

The CHEMX assesses students’ expectations about chemistry.

The CHEMX assess the following beliefs:

1. effort

2. concepts

3. math link

4. reality link

5. outcome

6. laboratory

7. visualization

Population

The CHEMX is commonly administered in college chemistry courses.

Validity

Study describing the validation process for the CHEMX:

• Grove, N., & Bretz, S. L. (2007). CHEMX: An instrument to assess students' cognitive expectations for learning chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education, 84(9), 1524.

Research

We recommend using Google Scholar to find the most up-to-date studies that use the instrument.

Example LASSO Report

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

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• Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) - Chemistry

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