[CS] Noon Today; "Using Diagnostic Questions to Improve a Notoriously Poorly Taught Course: Introductory Biology"

[Paula Harmon]

Charlene D'Avanzo, Professor of Ecology, to give CS Wednesday Talk today

"Using Diagnostic Questions to Improve a Notoriously Poorly Taught 
Course: Introductory Biology"

For the last several years I have been working on an NSF supported 
program that integrates research on Diagnostic Question Clusters (DQCs) 
and their use by faculty teaching introductory biology and ecology. The 
Questions, developed by an education research team at Michigan State, 
are designed to: 1) help faculty better understand their students' 
reasoning about key biological processes, 2) focus on thinking and 
reasoning most problematic, 3) use targeted active learning approaches 
to help students improve and 4) assess students progress. I will 
describe the Framework for these questions focusing on energy and 
matter, example student responses to some of the DQCs, and how faculty 
from a wide range of institutions are responding to this project.


This event is on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at noon in the ASH Lobby