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The end of multiple choice tests: using AI to enhance assessment
Michael Klymkowsky, Melanie M. Cooper
Effective teaching relies on knowing what students know-or think they know. Revealing student thinking is challenging. Often used because of their ease of grading, even the best mu…
Making sense of noise: introducing students to stochastic processes in order to better understand biological behaviors
Michael W. Klymkowsky
Biological systems are characterized by the ubiquitous roles of weak, that is, non-covalent molecular interactions, small, often very small, numbers of specific molecules per cell,…
NEXUS/Physics: An interdisciplinary repurposing of physics for biologists
E. F. Redish, C. Bauer, K. L. Carleton +15
In response to increasing calls for the reform of the undergraduate science curriculum for life science majors and pre-medical students (Bio2010, Scientific Foundations for Future…
Biological Concepts Instrument (BCI): A diagnostic tool for revealing student thinking
Michael W. Klymkowsky, Sonia M. Underwood, R. Kathleen Garvin-Doxas
A key to effective teaching is an awareness and accurate understanding of the thinking and implicit assumptions that students bring to the subject to be learned. In the absence of…