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Ansgar Opitz - The assessment of scientific reasoning skills

Dissertation: Advancing the Assessment of Scientific Reasoning Skills: A Review of Tests and a Detailed Analysis of a Common Test
Graduation year: 2017

Related Topics

  • Diagnostic reasoning
  • Measuring scientific thinking
  • Test development and evaluation

Related Publications

Journal articles and book chapters

  • Hetmanek, A., Engelmann, K., Opitz, A., & Fischer, F. (2018). Beyond intelligence and domain knowledge: Scientific reasoning and argumentation as a set of cross-domain skills. In F. Fischer, C. A. Chinn, K. Engelmann, & J. Osborne (Eds.), Scientific reasoning and argumentation: The roles of domain-specific and domain-general knowledge (pp. 203-226), New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Opitz, A., Heene, M., & Fischer, F. (2017). Measuring scientific reasoning – a review of test instruments. Educational Research and Evaluation, 23(3–4), 78–101. doi:10.1080/13803611.2017.1338586
  • Allgaier, A.-K., Krick, K., Opitz, A., Saravo, B., Romanos, M., & Schulte-Körne, G. (2014). Improving early detection of childhood depression in mental health care: the Children׳s Depression Screener (ChilD-S). Psychiatry Research, 217(3), 248–252. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.037

Conference presentations

  • Opitz, A., Heene, M., & Fischer, F. (2018, April). New insights from applying differential item functioning and bifactor models to a scientific reasoning test. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York City, NY.
  • Opitz, A., Heene, M., & Fischer, F. (2017, August). Evaluating scientific reasoning tests using differential item functioning and a bifactor model. In F. Fischer (Chair), Advances in the assessment of scientific reasoning and argumentation across disciplines. Symposium conducted at the 17. Biennial EARLI Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Tampere, Finland.
  • Opitz, A., Heene, M., & Fischer, F. (2016, September). The fairness of a scientific reasoning test across domains and its connection with general reasoning and science knowledge. Paper presented at the 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Leipzig, Germany.
  • Opitz, A., Heene, M., & Fischer, F. (2015, April). If scientific reasoning is what the tests test, then what is scientific reasoning? A review. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Opitz, A., Heene, M., & Fischer, F. (2014, September). Review of tests of scientific reasoning skills. Poster presented at the 49. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Bochum, Germany.
  • Opitz, A., Heene, M., & Fischer, F. (2014, July). Review of tests of scientific reasoning skills. Round-table presentation at the 18. Conference of the junior researchers of EARLI, Nicosia, Cyprus.