How to Assess Your CURE: A Practical Guide for Instructors of Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences.
How to Assess Your CURE: A Practical Guide for Instructors of Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences.
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DOI：
10.1128/jmbe.v17i3.1103
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发表时间：
2016-12
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Brownell SE
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作者：
Shortlidge EE;Brownell SE
以课程为基础的本科生研究经验（CURES）的形式将研究经验融入本科生生命科学课程，可以通过让学生有机会“做科学”来满足国家对教育改革的要求。在这篇文章中，我们提供了一个循序渐进的实用指南，以帮助教师使用评估中的最佳实践来评估他们的CURE。我们建议教师首先确定他们预期的CURE学习成果，然后努力确定与这些学习成果相一致的评估工具，并严格评估他们的课程评估结果。为了帮助教师了解已经开发的工具，我们还合成了一个“现成”评估工具表，教师可以使用它来评估自己的CURE。然而，我们承认每个CURE都是独特的，教师可能期望使用现有的评估工具无法评估的特定学习成果，因此我们建议教师考虑开发与其CURE背景紧密一致的自己的评估。
Integrating research experiences into undergraduate life sciences curricula in the form of course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) can meet national calls for education reform by giving students the chance to “do science.” In this article, we provide a step-by-step practical guide to help instructors assess their CUREs using best practices in assessment. We recommend that instructors first identify their anticipated CURE learning outcomes, then work to identify an assessment instrument that aligns to those learning outcomes and critically evaluate the results from their course assessment. To aid instructors in becoming aware of what instruments have been developed, we have also synthesized a table of “off-the-shelf” assessment instruments that instructors could use to assess their own CUREs. However, we acknowledge that each CURE is unique and instructors may expect specific learning outcomes that cannot be assessed using existing assessment instruments, so we recommend that instructors consider developing their own assessments that are tightly aligned to the context of their CURE.