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
The ASCI was originally developed in 2008. The development is detailed in
Bauer, C. F. (2008). Attitude toward chemistry: A semantic differential instrument for assessing curriculum impacts. Journal of Chemical Education, 85(10), 1440.
Research
See the validation section for related articles.
Example LASSO Report
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