title: Learning Outcomes with Linked Assessments - an Essential Part of our Regular Teaching Practice.
abstract: Setting up learning outcomes with linked assessments is a best practice in science education. In biology teaching, faculty are beginning to establish learning outcomes and assessments in the style of concept inventories. At a recent meeting of biology faculty who have designed concept inventories, the characteristics and uses of concept inventories were defined. Concept inventories used as pre- and post-measures of student learning provide a window into students' understanding of key concepts of a discipline and serve as a tool to motivate faculty toward evidence-based teaching habits. A movement for the development of a microbiology concept inventory is suggested.
authors: University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
authors: Ann C
authors: AC
authors: Smith
authors: Gili
authors: G
authors: Marbach-Ad
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