Publication Date
2021
Journal or Book Title
CBE-Life Sciences Education
Abstract
With support from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), a community of biochemistry and molecular biology (BMB) scientist-educators has developed and administered an assessment instrument designed to evaluate student competence across four core concept and skill areas fundamental to BMB. The four areas encompass energy and metabolism; information storage and transfer; macromolecular structure, function, and assembly; and skills including analytical and quantitative reasoning. First offered in 2014, the exam has now been administered to nearly 4000 students in ASBMB-accredited programs at more than 70 colleges and universities. Here, we describe the development and continued maturation of the exam program, including the organic role of faculty volunteers as drivers and stewards of all facets: content and format selection, question development, and scoring.
ISSN
1931-7913
ORCID
DRIES, DANIEL/0000-0002-0530-5212
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-12-0265
Volume
20
Issue
2
License
UMass Amherst Open Access Policy
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Funder
Teagle Foundation; ASBMB
Recommended Citation
Zeidan, Quira; Loertscher, Jennifer; Wolfson, Adele J.; Tansey, John T.; Offerdahl, Erika G.; Kennelly, Peter J.; Dries, Daniel R.; Moore, Victoria Del Gaizo; Dean, Diane M.; and Tyler, Ludmila, "Development of a Certification Exam to Assess Undergraduate Students' Proficiency in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Core Concepts" (2021). CBE-Life Sciences Education. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-12-0265