Comparison of published assessments of biological experimentation as mapped to the ACE-Bio competence areas.
Comparison of published assessments of biological experimentation as mapped to the ACE-Bio competence areas.
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已发布的生物实验评估与 ACE-Bio 能力领域的比较。
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10.1007/978-3-030-98592-9_14
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2022
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Beck, C.W.
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Zelaya, A.J.;Blumer, L.S.;Beck, C.W.
实验教学的主要挑战之一是有效的评估，具体来说，确定适当的评估工具和确定评估的方面。在努力促进适当使用的评估工具，并确定在我们的武器库中的评估与实验有关的差距，我们进行了一项调查，目前在本科生物学课程中使用的实验的不同方面的评估和分类的评估项目使用的框架生物实验的基本能力。我们限制我们的审查评估是免费提供的，记录在生物教育文献，并专注于本科生物学。我们审查的评估在基本能力的数量上各不相同，从最少两个到多达所有七个能力领域。在能力领域中，计划和结论覆盖面最大，30项评估中分别有27项和24项包含相关项目。与此相反，现有评估对“查明和执行”的覆盖不足。我们确定了现有工具中的差距，因为它们与评估实验和生物实验框架本身的基本能力有关。我们为生物学教师和研究人员提供建议，以使用现有的评估和改善生物实验评估的方法。
One of the main challenges in teaching of experimentation is effective assessment, specifically, identifying appropriate assessment instruments and identifying aspects being assessed. In an effort to facilitate appropriate use of assessment tools and to identify gaps in our arsenal of assessments related to experimentation, we conducted a survey of assessments of different aspects of experimentation currently used in undergraduate biology courses and categorized the assessment items using the framework of the Basic Competencies of Biological Experimentation. We limited our review to assessments that are freely available, documented in the biology education literature, and focus on undergraduate biology. The assessments we reviewed varied in the number of Basic Competencies they covered, ranging from a minimum of two and to as many as all seven Competence Areas. Among the Competence Areas,PlanandConcludehave the greatest coverage, with 27 and 24 of the 30 assessments containing related items, respectively. Conversely,IdentifyandConductare poorly covered by existing assessments. We identified gaps within existing instruments as they relate to assessing experimentation and within the Basic Competencies of Biological Experimentation framework itself. We offer recommendations to biology instructors and researchers on the use of existing assessments and on ways to improve assessment of biological experimentation.