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Chemical Education International, Vol. 4, No. 1, AN-3, Received July 24, 2003

TESTING OF CHEMICAL LITERACY
(CHEMISTRY IN CONTEXT IN THE DUTCH NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS)


Dolf Witte and Kees Beers
Department of Chemistry, Secondary Education Unit, CITO group,
P.O.box 1034, 6801 MG Arnhem, The Netherlands.
E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected]

Abstract
It is possible to write items assessing "chemical literacy skills". Dutch National Chemistry Examinations assess not only the candidate's knowledge and skills in chemistry, but also skills in using and dealing with information.
In our opinion we assess chemical literacy when we assess the ability of the candidates in:
. using and dealing with (written) information on a chemical problem;
. using chemical knowledge and skills for understanding information about an everyday problem.

This article shows examples of contexts used in chemistry examinations and examples of the format in which these contexts are presented.
Three examples of tasks from the National Chemistry Examinations in the Netherlands are presented. Items in these tasks are assessing literacy skills.

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