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The VEMINT-Test: Underlying Design Principles and Empirical Validation

Year: 2019

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: VEMINT (Virtual Entrance Tutorial for the STEM subjects), a joint project by researchers from the universities of Darmstadt, Kassel, Paderborn and Hannover, has worked on material and course-designs for bridging courses for more than 15 years. In recent years, VEMINT has focused on the development of a psychometrically validated test to provide students with appropriate hints for the use of material and to evaluate the impact of teaching and learning activities. In this paper, we present elements of the test, which are based on ideas from Feldt-Caesar (2017), who combined cognitive activity and action control theoretical approaches in the development of a three-dimensional competence structure model, and on Anthropological Theory of Didactics, to explain content-related differences between dimensions of the model. Validating Rasch-analyses show that, in accordance with the design ideas, a three-dimensional Rasch-model fits with empirical data.

Source: HAL

Authors: Hochmuth, Reinhard, Schaub, Marcel, Seifert, Andreas, Bruder, Regina, Biehler, Rolf

Institutions: Leibniz University Hannover, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Paderborn University

Language: English

Topic: Psychological Testing and Assessment

Subfield: Applied Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4288600607

FWCI: 1.294

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Cited by: 6

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