Development of a ‘universal’ rubric for assessing undergraduates' scientific reasoning skills using scientific writing

Developing a Test of Scientific Literacy Skills (TOSLS): Measuring Undergraduates’ Evaluation of Scientific Information and Arguments

Life sciences faculty agree that developing scientific literacy is an integral part of undergraduate education and report that they teach these skills. However, few measures of scientific literacy are available to assess students' proficiency in using scientific literacy skills to solve scenarios in and beyond the undergraduate biology classroom. In this paper, we describe the development, vali...

Writing a scientific paper.

In 1970 Vernon Booth was awarded the first Prize in a competition organized by Koch-Light Laboratories Ltd, Coinbrook, Bucks., U.K.. His article 'Writing a Scientific Paper' was printed first in 1971, and 10000 copies were distributed freely by Koch-Light. A Second Edition was prepared by Dr Booth and distributed privately. Copies of the First and Second Editions are no longer in print but requ...

COLLABORATIVE SCIENTIFIC REASONING: HOW PARENTS SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT AND FACILITATE TRANSFER OF A SCIENTIFIC-REASONING STRATEGY by

Assessing undergraduates' practical clinical skills.

A list of practical skills to observe or learn was included in an undergraduate child health core curriculum. The ability of students to perform these tasks was assessed in a short objective test. This testing has encouraged them to become more proficient in these important skills.

Semantic Structures for Scientific Writing

However, the scientific article has remained stubbornly resistant to renewal. Text mining and information extraction are methods specifically developed to find relevant information in unstructured texts and encode the information in a structured form, like a database record (Couto, 2003). In theory, text mining is the perfect solution to transforming factual knowledge from publications into dat...