Chemistry Expectations Survey (CHEMX)
Purpose
The CHEMX assesses students’ expectations about chemistry.
The CHEMX assess the following beliefs:
effort
concepts
math link
reality link
outcome
laboratory
visualization
Population
The CHEMX is commonly administered in college chemistry courses.
Typical Performance
Below are the performance results from the initial instrument development for five populations: general chemistry 1 (GC1), general chemistry 2 (GC2), organic chemistry 2 (OC2), after completing junior year chemistry, and faculty.
Example question
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.