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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.

Google Scholar citation for the BEMA