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Assessing High Performers in the Life Sciences: Characteristics of Exams Used at the International Biology Olympiad (IBO) and Their Implications for Life Science Education

Sebastian Opitz
Ute Harms

Sebastian Opitz

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Department of Biology Education, IPN–Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, 24098 Kiel, Germany

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Department of Biology Education, IPN–Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, 24098 Kiel, Germany

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Published Online:20 Nov 2020https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-10-0215

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Submitted: 31 October 2019

Revised: 25 August 2020

Accepted: 1 September 2020

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© 2020 S. Opitz and U. Harms. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2020 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 Jasmin Colakoglu for conducting preparatory works for this study. The IBO Steering Committee and IBO community provided valuable feedback in developing our analysis plan. Two anonymous reviewers and the editor contributed substantially to the quality of this work - we are highly grateful for their expertise and guidance.