5.3 Thermal and Transport Concept Inventory (TTCI)
[A] Authors
Mary A. Nelson, Ronald L. Miller, Ruth A. Streveler, Barbara M. Olds, Monica R. Geist
449 Alderson Hall, Chemical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
rlmiller@mines.edu
[B] Summary and Format
Faculty and students use the Thermal and Transport concept inventory (TTCI) assessment instrument to identify fundamental misconceptions about heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics in engineering students. The TTCI consists of about 20-25 questions each in these domains and is focused on misconceptions identified in a 3-round Delphi study performed in 2004. The instrument has undergone extensive development and psychometric analysis.
[C] Citation
M. A. Nelson, R. L. Miller, R. A. Streveler, B. M. Olds, M. R. Geist
Using concept inventories for formative assessment of conceptual learning: A
case study from engineering
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California
April 7, 2006.
[D] How to obtain
The current version of the instrument (version 3.04) is available for use by qualified engineering instructors. You may obtain a password to access the questions by sending an email to Dr. Ron Miller explaining the course(s) in which you’d like to use the instrument. All data collected for your students will be provided for your use and will also be included in an expanding TTCI database for use by researchers in conceptual change and concept inventory instrument development.
[E] Relevant literature
This link takes you to Google Scholar search for literature associated with this concept inventory.