Content-Based Assessments
- Biology Concept Inventory (BCI)
- Conceptual Inventory of Natural Selection (CINS)
- Article describing its development
- Measure of Understanding of Macroevolution (MUM)
- Article describing its development which includes the test items
- Basic Tree Thinking Assessment
- Article motivating the tree thinking approach and the question development published in Science
- The Tree Thinking Group
- Genetics Literacy Assessment Instrument (GLAI)
- Article describing its development
- The instrument is printed in the following dissertation (page 94)
- Genetics Concept Assessment (GCA)
- Can be obtained by emailing Michelle K Smith
- Article describing its development
- Genetics Literacy
- Can be obtained by emailing Chi-Yan Tsui
- Article describing the assessment
- Meiosis Concept Inventory (Meiosis CI)
- The inventory can be obtained by contacting Pam Kalas or Carol Pollick
- Paper describing the development and use of the inventory
- Developmental Biology Content Survey
- Available in appendix A
- Flowering plant growth and development
- Provided in the appendix of the publication describing its development and use
- Internal Transport in Plants and the Human Circulatory System
- Contact Jing-Ru Wang
- Article describing the development of the instrument
- Host-Pathogen Interaction
- To obtain this inventory contact Gili Marbach-Ad or Ann C. Smith
- Article describing its development
- Diffusion and Osmosis Diagnostic Test (DODT)
- Provided in the appendix of the article describing the development of the test
- Introductory Molecular and Cell Biology Assessment (IMCA)
- Provided in the supplementary material of the article describing the development of the test
- Molecular Life Sciences (MLS) Concept Inventory
- For more information, contact Dr. Tony Wright or Susan Hamilton
- Metabolism in Photosynthesis and Respiring Organisms
- Some questions are available in the article describing the development
- For more information contact Christopher Wilson
- Breathing and Respiration
- For more information, contact David Treagust
- Article describing the development of the items
- Photosynthesis and Respiration
- For more information, contact David Treagust
- Article describing the development of the instrument
- Cell Division Diagnostic Test
- For more information, contact Yilmaz Kara
- Article describing the development of the instrument
- Microbiology Concept Inventory
- The instrument, along with information about the creation and validation of the instrument
- Microbiology for Health Sciences Concept Inventory
- Information about the creation and validation of the instrument
- Biology - Measuring Achievement and Progression in Science (Bio-MAPS)
Affect and Attitudes about Biology/Science
- The Biology Attitude Scale
- Article discussing the instrument
- Maryland Biology Expectation Survey (MBEX)
- Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey – Biology (CLASS-Bio)
- Views about Science Survey (VASS)
- Views on Science and Education (VOSE)
- Questionnaire
- Article describing the development and use of the instrument
- Views of Nature and Science Questionnaire (VNOS)
Affect and Attitudes about Laboratory Courses
- Science Laboratory Environment Inventory (SLEI)
- The instrument is found in the appendix of the paper
- Article describing the development and use of the instrument
- Laboratory course assessment survey (LCAS)
- LCAS instrument
- Article describing the development and use of the instrument
Self-efficacy and motivation
- Biology Self-Efficacy Instrument for Nonmajors (BSEIN)
- Biology Motivation Questionnaire II (BMQ-II)
- An article describing the validation of the SMQ-II
- General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE)