1, 2, 3, 4: infusing quantitative literacy into introductory biology.

ABSTRACT: Biology of the twenty-first century is an increasingly quantitative science. Undergraduate biology education therefore needs to provide opportunities for students to develop fluency in the tools and language of quantitative disciplines. Quantitative literacy (QL) is important for future scientists as well as for citizens, who need to interpret numeric information and data-based claims regarding nearly every aspect of daily life. To address the need for QL in biology education, we incorporated quantitative concepts throughout a semester-long introductory biology course at a large research university. Early in the course, we assessed the quantitative skills that students bring to the introductory biology classroom and found that students had difficulties in performing simple calculations, re

SUBMITTER: Speth EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2931680 | biostudies-literature | 2010

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature