Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)
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DOI：
10.1080/13504622.2024.2314047
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发表时间：
2024-02-02
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3.2
通讯作者：
Hinerman，Krystal
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作者：
Holt，Emily A.;Duke，Jessica;Hinerman，Krystal
学生对气候变化的理解是一个活跃和不断增长的研究领域，但很少有研究记录了本科生对气候变化的生物影响的知识。在这里，我们通过介绍生物气候素养清单（IBCL）来解决这一文献空白，IBCL是一个概念清单，旨在评估本科生物学学生对气候变化如何影响生物的知识。我们通过文献回顾、学生和专家访谈、学生现场测试和专家评审开发了IBCL。我们实施了两个大型的全国性现场测试，并对这些数据集进行了多项心理测量分析。这些分析产生了一个由30个项目组成的最后工具，衡量与气候变化的生物影响有关的16个结构。我们发现，最终的IBCL并不代表一个单一的，简单的结构，而是复杂的和互动的概念，包括这个主题。我们认为总分仍然是一个有价值的衡量标准，因为某些群体（高年级学生和政治自由派人士）的得分明显更高。我们还发现，通过开发学生档案来分析IBCL的个别学生表现是有价值的。IBCL是评估学生对复杂和日益增长的气候变化问题及其对生活世界影响的理解的重要工具。
Student understanding of climate change is an active and growing area of research, but little research has documented undergraduate students’ knowledge about the biotic impacts of climate change. Here, we address this literature gap by presenting the Inventory of Biotic Climate Literacy (IBCL), a concept inventory developed to assess undergraduate biology student knowledge of how climate change impacts living things. We developed the IBCL through literature review, student and expert interviews, student field tests, and expert review. We implemented two large nationwide field tests and conducted multiple psychometric analyses on these datasets. These analyses resulted in a final tool of 30 items measuring 16 constructs related to the biotic impacts of climate change. We discovered that the final IBCL does not represent a single, simple construct but rather the complicated and interactive concepts that comprise this topic. We suggest that sum scores are still a valuable measure, as certain groups (upperclassmen and politically liberal individuals) scored significantly higher. We also found value in analyzing individual student performance on the IBCL by developing student profiles. The IBCL represents an important tool in assessing student understanding of the complex and growing problem of climate change and its impact on the living world.