RCN-UBE Incubator: Conceptual Assessments in Biology: Tools for Learning

这个项目解决了两个问题，第一次发现于1980年代，今天仍然存在。首先，学生们有许多与科学思想不一致的错误观念，这些观念顽固、顽固、难以改变。第二，随着大型课堂和多项选择题考试的出现，许多大学生可以仅仅通过表面的记忆来获得好成绩，而这种记忆不会导致长期的记忆或对潜在错误概念的修正。生物学概念评估（CAB）旨在考察学生推理和应用科学原理解决科学问题的方式。该项目将支持一个网络的规划和初步开发，该网络侧重于使用概念评估来帮助生物教师转变教学，以促进学生有意义的理解和解决问题的能力。该网络的目标是加强CAB开发人员的社区，并在网络上创建一个中央存储库，以满足CAB开发人员和使用CAB的教师的需求。该网络的更广泛影响将包括广泛传播CAB材料和培训教师开发和使用CAB。该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育司共同支持。

This project addresses two problems, first identified in the 1980s, that persist today. First, students have many misconceptions that are at odds with scientific ideas and that are tenacious, persistent, and resistant to change. Second, with the advent of large lecture classes and multiple-choice testing, many college students can earn good grades simply by superficial memorization that results in no long-term retention or modification of underlying misconceptions. Conceptual assessments in biology (CABs) are designed to examine the ways students are reasoning and applying scientific principles to solve scientific problems. This project will support planning and initial development of a network focused on the use of conceptual assessments to help biology faculty transform instruction to promote students' meaningful understanding and problem-solving abilities. Goals of the network will be to strengthen the community of CAB developers and create a central repository on the web to serve the needs of both CAB developers and faculty who use CABs. Broader impacts of the network will include broad dissemination of CAB materials and training of faculty in the development and use of CABs. This project is supported jointly by the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Division of Undergraduate Education.