title: Teaching quantitative biology: goals, assessments, and resources.
abstract: More than a decade has passed since the publication of BIO2010, calling for an increased emphasis on quantitative skills in the undergraduate biology curriculum. In that time, relatively few papers have been published that describe educational innovations in quantitative biology or provide evidence of their effects on students. Using a "backward design" framework, we lay out quantitative skill and attitude goals, assessment strategies, and teaching resources to help biologists teach more quantitatively. Collaborations between quantitative biologists and education researchers are necessary to develop a broader and more appropriate suite of assessment tools, and to provide much-needed evidence on how particular teaching strategies affect biology students' quantitative skill development and attitudes toward quantitative work.
authors.affiliation: Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.
authors.forename: Melissa L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Aikens
authors.affiliation: Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 edolan@austin.utexas.edu.
authors.forename: Erin L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Dolan
mesh_terms: D003585:Cell Biology / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003479:Curriculum; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008954:Models, Biological; D013334:Students; D013664:Teaching Materials; D055815:Young Adult