Conceptual Assessment in Biology Conferences |
At the first Conceptual Assessment in Biology conference was organized by Karthy Garvin-Doxas and Mike Klymkowsky and funded through a supplement to theirh "Building a Basic Biology Concept Inventory" project. It was held in March 2007 in Boulder, Colorado, and attended to begin a discussion of the “big ideas” in biology undergraduate education was discussed within the context of effective mechanisms for assessing conceptual understanding in biology (i.e., concept inventories). A summary of the meeting has been published in Life Sciences Eduction
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Background: To facilitate
discuss and collaboration between groups working in the area of conceptual
assessment in the biological sciences, we organized an NSF-funded
meeting in March of 2007 on this topic. Full meeting reports
and papers from individual attendees are available below, as pdfs. Comments
and suggestions: email
us
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Submitted papers (in alphabetical order of first author's last names):
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CAB II (on January 3-6, 2008 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds near Monterey, CA) was continues this work and further the conversation on how this knowledge of the “big ideas” and effective assessment tools can be used to transform teaching and learning in undergraduate biology. Specifically, the primary purpose of this conference will be to answer the following questions:
submitted papers: click here! |
posted
13 June 2007 |