Assessment of Student Learning in Introductory Science Courses

‡ The reference is: Hake, R.R. 2002. "Assessment of Student Learning in Introductory Science Courses," 2002 PKAL Roundtable on the Future: Assessment in the Service of Student Learning, Duke University, March 1-3; updated on 6/01/02; online at . Sections II (except for the last paragraph), III, and V are excerpted from Hake, R.R. "Lessons from the physics education reform effort." Conservation Ecology 5(2): 28; online at . Please refer to that paper for details and references.

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