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GenBio-MAPS: A Programmatic Assessment to Measure Student Understanding of Vision and Change Core Concepts across General Biology Programs

*Address correspondence to: Brian A. Couch (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588

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Christian D. Wright

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287

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Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

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Jennifer K. Knight

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309

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Katharine Semsar

Miramontes Arts and Sciences Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309

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Michelle K. Smith

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

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Mindi M. Summers

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

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**Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287

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Alison J. Crowe

Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

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Sara E. Brownell

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287

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John Coley, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:25 Jan 2019https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.18-07-0117

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Submitted: 10 July 2018

Revised: 10 October 2018

Accepted: 26 October 2018

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© 2019 B. A. Couch et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2019 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).

We thank the site coordinators who helped coordinate administration, the instructors who administered the survey in their courses, the experts who provided question feedback, and the students who participated in the research. We thank Leif Saul for generating artwork for the question figures; Peggy Brickman, Jenny McFarland, and Pamela Pape-Lindstrom for serving on our project advisory board; and Cole Walsh and Natasha Holmes for online portal development. This work was supported by a collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program to the University of Colorado–Boulder (B.A.C., J.K.K.; DUE-1322364), University of Maine–Orono (M.K.S.; DUE-1322556), and University of Washington–Seattle (S.F., A.J.C., S.E.B.; DUE-1323010).