RCN-UBE: BioHUB: An Internet HUB for the Conceptual Assessment in Biology Community

这个RCN-UBE项目正在催化生物学概念评估（CAB）的开发人员和用户网络之间的互动，以实现创建一个集中的BioHUB的共同目标，在那里CAB可以由教师获得，在线管理学生，并进行讨论。CAB旨在检查学生对主题的概念理解，而不是他们对可能和经常记忆的信息的回忆;每个CAB项目都让学生对特定问题或情况进行有意义的思考。越来越多的CAB可以在开发人员之间共享，并在校园内广泛使用。智力优势：该网络与普渡大学工程学院的ciHUB网站创建者合作，在NSF/CCLI资助的ciHUB（概念库存HUB）内开发生物学概念评估HUB（BioHUB），以满足CAB传播的需求。目前，ciHUB.org提供工程、物理和统计方面的概念评估。BioHUB旨在为CAB信息，传播，讨论和研究提供一个中心和可访问的位置，以便大学和7-12年级的教师可以轻松访问CAB，协助CAB的可选管理和评分，并指导解释和使用CAB探索学生的先验知识，互动教学和评估学习成果。更广泛的影响：BioHUB是一个令人兴奋的概念，可以提供一个持续的虚拟会议空间以及有效的CAB传播，并有可能深刻影响全国生物学教学的方式，提高学生在生物课上的参与度，并刺激所有学习生物学的学生实现有意义的思考和解决问题的能力。生物基础设施司和教育和人力资源局，本科教育司作为他们的愿景和变化的一部分，在本科生物教育的努力。

This RCN-UBE project is catalyzing interactions between a network of developers and users of Conceptual Assessments in Biology (CABs) to work towards a common goal of creating a centralized BioHUB where CABs can be obtained by faculty, administered on line to students, and discussed. CABs aim to examine students' conceptual understandings of a topic rather than their recall of information that may be and often is memorized; each CAB item engages students in thinking meaningfully about a particular problem or situation. A growing number of CABs are ready to be shared among developers and disseminated for wider use across campuses. Intellectual Merit: In collaboration with ciHUB website creators at Purdue University College of Engineering, the network developing a Conceptual Assessments in Biology HUB (BioHUB) within the NSF/CCLI-funded ciHUB (concept inventory HUB) to meet the need for dissemination of CABs. Currently ciHUB.org hosts conceptual assessments in engineering, physics, and statistics. The BioHUB is aimed at providing one central and accessible location for CAB information, dissemination, discussion, and research so that instructors in college as well as grades 7-12 can have easy access to CABs, assistance with optional administration and scoring of CABs, and guidance for interpretation and use of CABs in exploring students' prior knowledge, interactive teaching, and assessing learning gains. Broader Impacts: BioHUB is an exciting concept that can provide a continuing virtual meeting space as well as effective CAB dissemination, and has the potential to profoundly influence the ways in which biology is taught nationwide, increase student engagement in biology classes, and stimulate attainment of meaningful thinking and problem-solving capacities in all students who study biology.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education efforts.