BioSkills Guide: Development and National Validation of a Tool for Interpreting the Vision and Change Core Competencies.

ABSTRACT: To excel in modern science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers, biology majors need a range of transferable skills, yet competency development is often a relatively underdeveloped facet of the undergraduate curriculum. We have elaborated the Vision and Change core competency framework into a resource called the BioSkills Guide, a set of measurable learning outcomes that can be more readily implemented by faculty. Following an iterative review process including more than 200 educators, we gathered evidence of the BioSkills Guide's content validity using a national survey of more than 400 educators. Rates of respondent support were high (74.3-99.6%) across the 77 outcomes in the final draft. Our national sample during the development and validation phases included colleg

SUBMITTER: Clemmons AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8693931 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature