Thinking like a Biologist: Using diagnostic questions to help students to reason with biological principles (Thinking like a Biologist)

Subjects:
Biology
 
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Comments:
16 DQC sets of ~7 items each, MC, TF, open-ended. ITEMS PROVIDED ON-LINE at www.biodqc.org
Publications:

D'Avanzo C, Anderson CW, Griffith A, Merrill J. 2011. Thinking like a biologist. Using diagnostic questions to help students reason with biological principles. (accessed 30 January 2011; www.biodqc.org).

[The site at http://www.biodqc.org/ has Diagnostic Question Clusters (DQC's) organized by three ecological topics (Carbon Cycling, Energy Flow in Ecosystems, Climate Change), and by three biological processes (Photosynthesis, Biosynthesis, Cellular Respiration) - with two DQCs each; plus one each DQC under topics Gasoline, Biofuels, Carbon in Nature, and Carbon Balance. Some items appear in more than one DQC.]