Development of the Biology Competencies Assessment Series (BCAS)

生物能力评估系列（BCAS）的开发

• 批准号: 1245104
• 负责人: Michelle Smith
• 金额: $ 0.42万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-15 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245104&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Biology; Competencies; Assessment; Series

This project is supporting a workshop to convene biology education researchers to plan out the development and validation of a Biology Competencies Assessment Series (BCAS). The BCAS will consist of several multiple-choice and short-answer questions validated by students and designed to evaluate student progress on learning biology concepts and achieving the competencies recommended in "Vision and Change: A Call to Action." In particular, the workshop is bringing together Principal Investigators of both new and established TUES projects related to developing assessment tools to address effectiveness of instruction.Intellectual merit: The project provides the opportunity for experts in biology educational research to work towards the development of assessments that track the progress of students at multiple points in their undergraduate careers. The opportunity to plan also allows participants to share (and not replicate) efforts to standardize the protocols for validating the questions important to the biology community.Broader impacts: The project plans a consensus set of tools to help the larger biology community assess how well students are mastering the concepts and competencies outlined in national initiatives. From an educational perspective, this workshop provides promising advances to standard measurement for student learning that allows biology departments across the country to use data-driven processes to align their teaching practices and curricula with learning goals prescribed in several national reports including "Vision and Change."This project is being funded by the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of its efforts toward supporting the goals and objectives of "Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education."

该项目正在支持一个研讨会，召集生物教育研究人员计划开发和验证生物能力评估系列（BCAS）。 BCAS将包括几个多项选择和简短的回答问题，由学生验证，旨在评估学生在学习生物学概念和实现“愿景与变革：行动呼吁”中建议的能力方面的进展。“特别是，研讨会汇集了新的和建立TUES项目的主要研究者，这些项目与开发评估工具有关，以解决教学的有效性。智力价值：该项目为生物教育研究专家提供了一个机会，致力于开发评估，跟踪学生在本科生涯中多个点的进展。 计划的机会还允许参与者分享（而不是复制）努力，以标准化验证对生物学社区重要的问题的协议。更广泛的影响：该项目计划了一套共识工具，以帮助更大的生物学社区评估学生掌握国家倡议中概述的概念和能力的程度。 从教育的角度来看，这次研讨会为学生学习的标准测量提供了有希望的进步，使全国各地的生物系能够使用数据驱动的过程，使他们的教学实践和课程与包括“愿景与变革”在内的几份国家报告中规定的学习目标保持一致。该项目由本科教育部教育和人力资源局资助，作为其支持“本科生物学教育的愿景和变革”目标和目的的努力的一部分。"