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Avoiding Reflex Responses: Strategies for Revealing Students' Conceptual Understanding in Biology
written by Michael Klymkowsky, Rachel Gheen, and Kathy Garvin-Doxas
There is widespread concern about the level of scientific literacy in the U. S. An important, although often overlooked, point, is that student learning is generally only a good as the assessments used to measure it. Unfortunately, most assessments measure recall and recognition rather than conceptual understanding, and as a result over-estimate levels of scientific literacy. We have encountered this fact during the construction of the Biology Concept Inventory (BCI). Using the concept of diffusion, which is taught in a wide range of introductory biology, chemistry, and physics courses, as an exemplar, we describe lessons learned and strategies we use to create questions that better probe student understanding.
Physics Education Research Conference 2006
Part of the PER Conference Invited Paper series
Syracuse, New York: July 26-27, 2006
Volume 883, Pages 3-6
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© 2006 American Institute of Physics
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10.1063/1.2508676
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PERC 2006, biophysics, conceptual understanding, learning theory
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Metadata instance created June 4, 2007 by Shawn Weatherford
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M. Klymkowsky, R. Gheen, and K. Garvin-Doxas, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, 2006, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5249&DocID=3502).
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M. Klymkowsky, R. Gheen, and K. Garvin-Doxas, Avoiding Reflex Responses: Strategies for Revealing Students' Conceptual Understanding in Biology, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, 2006, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5249&DocID=3502>.
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Klymkowsky, M., Gheen, R., & Garvin-Doxas, K. (2006, July 26-27). Avoiding Reflex Responses: Strategies for Revealing Students' Conceptual Understanding in Biology. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5249&DocID=3502
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Klymkowsky, M, R. Gheen, and K. Garvin-Doxas. "Avoiding Reflex Responses: Strategies for Revealing Students' Conceptual Understanding in Biology." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, July 26-27, 2006. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5249&DocID=3502 (accessed 28 March 2024).
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Klymkowsky, Michael, Rachel Gheen, and Kathy Garvin-Doxas. "Avoiding Reflex Responses: Strategies for Revealing Students' Conceptual Understanding in Biology." Physics Education Research Conference 2006. Syracuse, New York: 2006. 3-6 Vol. 883 of PER Conference Invited Paper. 28 Mar. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5249&DocID=3502>.
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@inproceedings{ Author = "Michael Klymkowsky and Rachel Gheen and Kathy Garvin-Doxas", Title = {Avoiding Reflex Responses: Strategies for Revealing Students' Conceptual Understanding in Biology}, BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2006}, Pages = {3-6}, Address = {Syracuse, New York}, Series = {PER Conference Invited Paper}, Volume = {883}, Month = {July 26-27}, Year = {2006} }
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