Sentence examples for examining student understanding from inspiring English sources

The bulk of the research examining student understanding of evolution to date has focused on microevolutionary processes (such as natural selection), not macroevolutionary processes and events (such as speciation, fossil evidence; i.e., Anderson et al. 2002: Bishop and Anderson 1990; Nadelson 2009; Sinatra et al. 2003; Southerland and Sinatra 2003, 2005).

Onetime questionnaires are also limited to examining student understanding at a single point in time.

However, we contend the division provides a useful context for examining students' understanding and acceptance of the evolutionary process in the short and long term.

Based on our psychometric analysis of the CIER, we concluded that the test is matched to elementary students' ability and is a valid measure for examining students' understanding of the concepts introduced by the Evolution Readiness activities.

The present study examined students' understanding and perceived effectiveness of a recent Australian alcohol campaign designed to increase students' awareness of excessive and harmful drinking.

What is clear from examining student responses is that the common traditional instruction sequence does not produce a coherent understanding of energy changes when chemical or physical changes occur.

If concepts are situated and simulation-based, understanding should be measured by examining students' ability to dynamically coordinate the concepts for the purpose at hand, which is the starting point for the current article.

Finally, in 2012, we collected students' final scientific posters and randomly sampled 53 from a total of 102 across all five lab sections to examine student explanations of the influence of variation in genotype and environment on the inheritance and expression of anthocyanin pigmentation using a rubric developed to analyze students' understanding of Gv, Ev, and Pv (Table 1).

Give quizzes that test students' understanding.

We examined student performance in multiple fashions.

It would have been useful to examine whether students' understanding of macroevolutionary processes changed over the semester and how attitudinal/cultural and cognitive variables were related to this change (Nadelson and Southerland 2009).