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Building, Using, and Maximizing the Impact of Concept Inventories in the Biological Sciences
Building, Using, and Maximizing the Impact of Concept Inventories in the Biological Sciences
Following the success of the Force Concept Inventory, there are now many simultaneous efforts to develop concept inventories in the biological sciences. Simultaneous development poses both a
potential danger (that groups may develop competing, rather than complimentary instruments) as well as a tremendous opportunity (to organize and leverage current efforts in ways that provide
complementary coverage). Given these considerations, a face-to-face meeting focused on organizing and leveraging current and planned efforts, was recently hosted by the Biology Concept Inventory Team with National Science Foundation support to address these and related issues. The meeting report below recounts the motivation behind the meeting, provides a short overview of CI’s, and summarizes the larger issues and themes that span all projects (with a web-link to the full papers as well as participant biographies), a summary of meeting discussion and outcomes, as well as our anticipated next steps. The meeting itself provided an ideal venue for leveraging current research findings about student conceptual learning in the biological sciences
and a means of ensuring that those working on concept inventory development in the biological sciences communicate a coherent and persuasive message to the rest of the community.
Gavin-Doxas, K., M.W. Klymkowsky & Susan Elrod
Life Science Education, in press
2007-12-01 00:00
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