Evidence-based approaches to curriculum reform and assessment Authors Melanie M. Cooper Michigan State University. Department of Chemistry (USA) Keywords: Curriculum transformation, assessment, chemistry education research, instructional technology, scientific practices. Abstract Most of transformation efforts in STEM are focused on incorporating pedagogical techniques, rather than redesigning the curriculum and assessments. Assessments that emphasize scientific practices are more likely to elicit evidence about what students know and can do than assessments based on content fragments. Here I discuss a new general chemistry curriculum, «Chemistry, life, the universe and everything», which illustrates an approach to reform that focuses on core ideas, scientific practices and cross-cutting concepts, and is supported by assessments that elicit evidence of student use of their knowledge.keywords: Curriculum transformation, assessment, chemistry education research, instructional technology, scientific practices. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 23 (2017) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
