PhysPort Assessments: Heat and Temperature Conceptual Evaluation

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Heat and Temperature Conceptual Evaluation (HTCE)

Developed by Ron Thornton and David Sokoloff

Purpose	To assess students’ understanding of heat and temperature concepts.
Format	Pre/post, Multiple-choice, Short answer
Duration	40 min
Focus	Thermal / Statistical Content knowledge (temperature, phase change, heat transfer, thermal properties of materials)
Level	Intro college

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Examples

Sample questions from the HCTE:

Resources

HTCE Implementation and Troubleshooting Guide

Everything you need to know about implementing the HTCE in your class.

C. Tanahoung, M. Sharma, I. Johnston, R. Chitaree, and C. Soankwan, Surveying Sydney Introductory Physics Students' Understandings of Heat and Temperature, presented at the Australian Institute of Physics National Congress, Brisbane, 2006.

Research

RESEARCH VALIDATION
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Bronze Validation
This is the third highest level of research validation, corresponding to at least 3 of the validation categories below.

Research Validation Summary

Based on Research Into:

Student thinking

Studied Using:

Student interviews
Expert review
Appropriate statistical analysis

Research Conducted:

At multiple institutions
By multiple research groups
Peer-reviewed publication

The multiple-choice questions on the HTCE are based on research into student thinking. The HTCE has been tested with over 1000 students at four universities.

References

D. A. Nugraha, et al., Students’ profile of heat and temperature using HTCE in undergraduate physics, IOP Conf. Series: Journal of Physics: Conf. Series, 909 (2017).
C. Tanahoung, R. Chitaree, C. Soankwan, M. Sharma, and I. Johnston, Surveying Thai and Sydney introductory physics students’ understandings of heat and temperature , presented at the The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education, Sydney, Australia, 2006.
C. Tanahoung, M. Sharma, I. Johnston, R. Chitaree, and C. Soankwan, Surveying Sydney Introductory Physics Students' Understandings of Heat and Temperature, presented at the Australian Institute of Physics National Congress, Brisbane, 2006.

Translations

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Language	Translator(s)
Chinese	Wei Fang

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Scoring

Typical Results

Typical Results from Tanahoung et. al, 2006. Question 24 was omitted from the analysis because it was not multiple-choice.

University	Pre-test	Post-test	‹g›
Mahidol University		62%
Khon Kaen University		51%
Ubon Rajathnee University		42%
University of Sydney (2005)		69%
University of Sydney regular class (2006)	53%	72%	40%
University of Sydney advanced class (2006)	69%	84%	47%