(541)NOVEL TOOLS FOR STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT INCHEMISTRY

摘要

In 2008 the Polish educational system underwent a major reform, which consisted in introducing anew Science Curriculum. The Curriculum proposes a new educational approach emphasizingreasoning skills and critical thinking skills. The present work focuses on developing novel reasoningskills assessing tools for Polish students at ISCED-2 stage. Large scale tests in Polish schools wereperformed in order to evaluate the quality of these tools and to eliminate ambiguous or misleadingitems. For each item a special graph was prepared and analyzed, in which pupils were divided in tengroups depending on their score gained throughout the test. Subsequently for each single item, theaverage score in each octile group was checked. Selected exemplary tools as well as items statistics(exact results of the item discrimination and the item easiness indexes for these tools in the performedtest) are presented.