Administering a Digital Logic Concept Inventory at Multiple Institutions

A concept inventory is a standard assessment tool that evaluates how well a student's conceptual framework matches the accepted conceptual framework of a discipline. In this paper, we describe our development cycle to create a digital logic concept inventory. We show that the concept inventory is a reliable and valid instrument even when administered at multiple institutions across the United States of America and can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of different pedagogies.

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