Sentence examples for the class instruments from inspiring English sources

The CLASS instruments are unique among epistemological assessments in that the statement categories are based on student responses.

These results provide support that the CLASS instruments accurately reflect student thinking and not what students perceive their instructors want them to think.

These features make the CLASS instruments especially useful when trying to track student perceptions across a curriculum and across courses (Adams et al., 2006; Gire et al., 2009).

This process is described in detail in Adams et al. (2006) and outlined in Table 2. > As in the other CLASS instruments, the main goal of categorizing statements is to be able to examine student thinking in more depth, rather than to explain the variance of the overall scores.

The final version of CLASS-Bio contains 31 statements: 10 statements are identical to statements on CLASS-Phys and -Chem with the word "biology" substituted for "physics" or "chemistry," 11 statements are modified from CLASS-Phys, and 10 statements are new and not found on the other CLASS instruments.

Thus, the statement pool for CLASS-Bio was quite different from the other two CLASS instruments.

Through this individual case study, I aim to demonstrate that the careful examination of an individual instrument, coupled with an understanding of the class of instruments to which it belongs and the milieu in which it was produced, can result in a deeper understanding of any given artefact, its circumstances of design and manufacture, and its intended use and users.

The results demonstrated that although the different flavours of crisp were matched with musical notes of different pitches, there were no significant differences in the class of instruments chosen to match any of the flavours.

Specifically, CLASS instruments compare student responses with the consensus response of experts (PhDs in the field).

CLASS instruments are also unique in their ability to specifically detect novice/expert differences.

Only statements with an unambiguous and nearly unanimous expert response are included on CLASS instruments (see Expert Consensus below).