2.1 Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA)
[A] Authors
Lin Ding, Ruth Chabay, Bruce Sherwood and Robert Beichner
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, 2401 Stinson Drive, Box 8202, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
rwchabay@unity.ncsu.edu
[B] Summary and Format
This 31 item MCQ assessment assesses student understanding of basic electricity and magnetism concepts. It is written for college-level calculus-based introductory physics courses.
[C] Citation
R. Chabay, B. Sherwood
Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2(1), 7-13 (2006)
[D] How to obtain
The instrument can be obtained online
This is a PDF download but is password proetcted. Physics teachers wishing to obtain the instrument should contact the author.
[E] Relevant literature
This link takes you to Google Scholar search for literature associated with this concept inventory.