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Using the Biology Card Sorting Task to Measure Changes in Conceptual Expertise during Postsecondary Biology Education

Sarah A. Bissonnette

Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Elijah D. Combs

Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Department of Biology, Laney College, Oakland, CA 94607

Division of Math and Science, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA 94619

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Division of Math and Science, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA 94619

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Juliana Fernandez

Division of Math and Science, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA 94619

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Division of Math and Science, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA 94619

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Division of Math and Science, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA 94619

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Division of Math and Science, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA 94619

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Division of Math and Science, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA 94619

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Kimberly D. Tanner

Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Campbell A. Malcolm, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-09-0273

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Submitted: 8 September 2016

Revised: 13 December 2016

Accepted: 18 December 2016

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© 2017 S. A. Bissonnette et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2017 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

This work was supported by National Science Foundation CAREER Award #DRL-0954127. We thank Dr. Seth Bush and Dr. Gregory Scott for helpful comments on the paper. We also thank Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL) staff and students for their comments on this work. Finally, we thank all of the faculty and students who participated in this research.