Biology concept assessment tools: design and use

A History Concept for Design Recovery Tools

Many tools have been developed for recovering the design of legacy software. Interactively invoked abstraction operations and re-design transformations play a central role in these tools. A limitation of most existing approaches is, however, that they assume a mostly linear transformation process. They provide little support for iteration, recursion and incremental changes during the recovery p...

Design and Psychometrics of Quality of Life Assessment Tools for Patients with Hypertension

Background and Aim: Hypertension is the strongest independent and modifiable factor for heart failure, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accident and chronic kidney disease worldwide, which affects the quality of life of patients. In order to accurately assess the quality of life of patients, it is necessary to design a special questionnaire consisting of different dimensions in order to ...

The Molecular Biology Capstone Assessment: A Concept Assessment for Upper-Division Molecular Biology Students

Measuring students' conceptual understandings has become increasingly important to biology faculty members involved in evaluating and improving departmental programs. We developed the Molecular Biology Capstone Assessment (MBCA) to gauge comprehension of fundamental concepts in molecular and cell biology and the ability to apply these concepts in novel scenarios. Targeted at graduating students...

Synthetic Biology: Tools to Design, Build, and Optimize Cellular Processes

The general central dogma frames the emergent properties of life, which make biology both necessary and difficult to engineer. In a process engineering paradigm, each biological process stream and process unit is heavily influenced by regulatory interactions and interactions with the surrounding environment. Synthetic biology is developing the tools and methods that will increase control over t...

Manoeuvring Assessment in Concept Ship Design