... the relationships and nature of alleles, genes, and chromosomes. To measure student understanding of these concepts, as well as support biology educational reform toward student-centered instruction, we developed a formative assessment to provide reliable and valid evidence of student understanding, learning...

...Anushree Bopardikar; Karen Mutch-Jones; Santiago Gasca; Melissa Csikari; Marjee Chmiel Assessment of student learning is crucial to capture accurately student understanding of core concepts and competencies as well as to provide relevant feedback for informing teaching and learning. Yet, many...

... it means to understand a concept. While several formal definitions have been offered, we investigated how biology instructors and biology education researchers define the term and how they perceived the skill sets needed for a student to understand a concept in the context of assessments. We found...

..., the overall goal being to develop a set of assessments that ask students to connect their knowledge across introductory chemistry and biology courses. Here, we describe the development and testing of an activity that focuses on concepts about energy in bond breaking, bond forming, and ATP coupling...

... be applied to a wide array of scientific course types and educational levels. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 assessment biochemistry biology education cell structure and processes misconceptions teaching tips Students come to science class with many ideas...

...Dennis D. Tarasi A consistent challenge for undergraduate instructors is how to properly and objectively assess students who cannot attend regularly scheduled exams. Though many alternatives exist, perhaps the most common strategy is to allow students to take a makeup exam at a different time. Many...

... . 2020 rural education assessment college teaching In our current “post-truth” society, many people place little value on the use of scientific evidence in decision making, arguably one of the most important goals of science education (e.g., AAAS, 2011 ; Murakami et al., 2017 ). Students...

... science process skills. We created a scenario-based assessment instrument – designed to gauge science process skills – that was accessible to nonmajors and majors. We evaluated nonmajors' and majors' open-ended responses using a rubric. We also assessed students' science identity, confidence...

... teaching evolution PCK pedagogical content knowledge student thinking instructional strategies teaching strategies assessment learning objectives Take a moment to reflect on the knowledge that you use when you teach evolutionary topics. Most obviously, you use knowledge of the discipline...

... as scientific publications, though assessment is by instructors rather than peers. In the context of assignments, “peer review is understood to mean the educational arrangement in which students consider or evaluate the value, quality or success of work produced by their fellow students and provide each other...

... to have adapted best. In two out of three semesters students concluded that P. caudatum responded to acid rain with the greatest rate of adaptation. Student success was compared between both types of courses using four methods of assessment: student academic performance, retention rate, transfer rate...

...Karla Fuller Success rates in non-majors introductory biology courses tend to be lower than those in courses for majors. The use of student learning ePortfolios correlates with increased retention and improved learning. Additionally, when ePortfolios are used for periodic formative assessment...

... question writing, logistics, assessment, and useful applications of think-pair-share in the science classroom. Instructors can use technology to guide and enhance think-pair-share activities. Slone and Mitchell (2014) used Google Drive in a graduate-level abnormal psychology course to facilitate...

...; identification of student misconceptions; creation of formative and summative assessment items addressing higher levels of conceptual understanding; validation and reliability testing of such assessment instruments; preparation of strategies, activities, and assessments to utilize – on the fly...

... biologists do not write essays. A rubric outlining the marking allocation is also provided. Essays are submitted, assessed, and returned online using Learning Management System software. Feedback assessment workload The numerous models of learning and teaching described in the educational...

... or within teaching standards. We review three instruments that can help education researchers and educators undertake this paradigm shift. The instruments assess how biology undergraduates understand three evolutionary processes other than natural selection: genetic drift, dominance relationships among...

...Steven M. Autieri Biological concepts such as transcription, translation, codons, and genes can be confusing and overwhelming to high school biology students, yet these are prominent topics assessed on high-stakes standardized tests. I present a project-based assessment approach that can help...

... technique to students, their ability to promote student learning has not been thoroughly assessed. We found that a commercially available ELISA kit increased student performance on pre- and post-tests in three undergraduate college courses, especially in those taught to general-education students. Student...

...Richard Grumbine This article outlines an exercise that assesses student knowledge of food-web and energy-flow concepts. Students work in teams and use manipulatives to build food-web models based on criteria assigned by the instructor. The models are then peer reviewed according to guidelines...