TESTING
OF CHEMICAL LITERACY
(CHEMISTRY IN CONTEXT IN THE DUTCH NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS)
Dolf Witte and Kees Beers
Department of Chemistry, Secondary Education Unit,
CITO group,
P.O.box 1034, 6801 MG Arnhem, The Netherlands.
E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract
It is possible to write items assessing "chemical literacy
skills". Dutch National Chemistry Examinations assess not
only the candidate's knowledge and skills in chemistry, but also
skills in using and dealing with information.
In our opinion we assess chemical literacy when we assess the
ability of the candidates in:
. using and dealing with (written) information on a chemical problem;
. using chemical knowledge and skills for understanding information
about an everyday problem.
This
article shows examples of contexts used in chemistry examinations
and examples of the format in which these contexts are presented.
Three examples of tasks from the National Chemistry Examinations
in the Netherlands are presented. Items in these tasks are assessing
literacy skills.
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