A Biology Core Concept Instrument (BCCI) to Teach and Assess Student Conceptual Understanding.

ABSTRACT: Instruments for teaching and assessing student understanding of the five core concepts in biology from Vision and Change are needed. We developed four Biology Core -Concept Instruments (BCCIs) that teach and assess students' ability to describe a concept in their own words, identify concepts represented in biological phenomena, and make connections between concepts. The BCCI includes a narrative, followed by a series of 10 true-false/identify (TF/I) and three open-ended questions. The TF/I questions are aligned with Cary and Branchaw's Conceptual Elements Framework and were iteratively developed with feedback from biology experts and student performance and feedback obtained during think-aloud interviews. A component scoring system was developed to discriminate between a stud

SUBMITTER: Cary TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755325 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature