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SUBMITTER: Parker JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3292062 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parker Joyce M JM Anderson Charles W CW Heidemann Merle M Merrill John J Merritt Brett B Richmond Gail G Urban-Lurain Mark M
CBE life sciences education 20120101 1
We present a diagnostic question cluster (DQC) that assesses undergraduates' thinking about photosynthesis. This assessment tool is not designed to identify individual misconceptions. Rather, it is focused on students' abilities to apply basic concepts about photosynthesis by reasoning with a coordinated set of practices based on a few scientific principles: conservation of matter, conservation of energy, and the hierarchical nature of biological systems. Data on students' responses to the clust ...[more]