BioCore Guide: A Tool for Interpreting the Core Concepts of Vision and Change for Biology Majors.

ABSTRACT: Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education outlined five core concepts intended to guide undergraduate biology education: 1) evolution; 2) structure and function; 3) information flow, exchange, and storage; 4) pathways and transformations of energy and matter; and 5) systems. We have taken these general recommendations and created a Vision and Change BioCore Guide-a set of general principles and specific statements that expand upon the core concepts, creating a framework that biology departments can use to align with the goals of Vision and Change. We used a grassroots approach to generate the BioCore Guide, beginning with faculty ideas as the basis for an iterative process that incorporated feedback from more than 240 biologists and biology educators at a diverse range of academ

SUBMITTER: Brownell SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4041499 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature