Attitude toward the Subject of Chemistry Inventory (ASCI)
Purpose
The ASCI assesses students’ attitudes regarding “chemistry” as a body of knowledge or practices.
The constructs the ASCI measures are chemistry:
Interest and Utility
Anxiety
Intellectual Accessibility
Fear
Emotional Satisfaction
Population
The ASCI is commonly administered in university chemistry courses in courses for majors and non-majors.
Typical Performance
Below are the results from the instrument development research.
Example question
Validity
Study describing the validation process for the ASCI:
Bauer, C. F. (2008). Attitude toward chemistry: A semantic differential instrument for assessing curriculum impacts. Journal of Chemical Education, 85(10), 1440.
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.