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Two raters independently applied a pilot rubric to code approximately one third of the students' Concept Frames (38 out of 124).
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To make an album that has a concept framing it is a way to remind people that this is a deliberate creation, not just songs in a pile.
Fig. 2 Concept Frame.
We applied an analogous procedure to design and calibrate a coding scheme for the Concept Frame.
To complete the Concept Frame, therefore, students needed to make an inference regarding the origin of variation in tobacco populations.
The outcomes of this assessment, illustrated in Fig. 6, offer multiple insights on student learning: Fig. 6 Analysis of the Concept Frame.
The Concept Frame was part of the midterm exam that immediately followed the evolution unit, and students received a grade for correctness of their explanations.
Organizing frames, like the Concept Frame we used in this study, have a great potential for use in the classroom as learning tools to promote transfer of knowledge (West et al. 1991).
In the case of sex determination, 'default' became the prevailing concept framing research into female pathways - i.e., it was assumed that an ovary results in the absence of other action.
However, when we assessed understanding of evolution in Avida-ED through the Concept Frame, we noticed that a large proportion of students (about 44%) correctly understood the origin of variation in that context.
We used three different assessment tools (Fig. 1b), each designed to detect different facets of understanding of the five key principles above: the Conceptual Inventory of Natural Selection (CINS; Anderson et al. 2002) and two open-response instruments, which we refer to as the "Dino Problem" and the "Concept Frame".
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