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EvoCI toolkit: concept inventories to assess conceptual understanding of evolution. Rebecca Price & Kathryn Perez
How can we quickly
assess what our
students “get” about
evolution so that we
can tailor our
teaching to
meet the unique
needs of each class?
Can we measure how
effective different
teaching modules
are? We
are developing
Evolution Concept
Inventories (EvoCI),
a series of
diagnostic tests
that will measure
how well students
understand evolution
by probing students’
concept of
sophisticated
evolutionary
principles. Each
test in the EvoCI
will be a series of
multiple choice
questions and the
incorrect choices
for
each question will
be based on common
misconceptions that
students have about
evolution. EvoCI
will be
available through an
online portal that
administers the
questions and
generates
instructors’
reports.
Working group funded by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) Back row: Ryan Walker, Louise Mead, Anna Hiatt, Greg Davis, Joel Abraham, Mike Smith Front row: Terri and Finn McElhinney, Kathryn Perez, Becca Price, Tessa Andrews, Mark Terry Not pictured: Anna Thanukos, Kathleen Smith, Caleb Trujilla, Anna Hiatt.  Ongoing Research Projects: I. Systematics and Taxonomy of North American Polygyrid Land Snails II. Population genetics of Bithynia tentaculata III. Wisconsin land snails IV. Developing concept inventories for evolutionary biology |