Helping Your Students to Bloom - Fostering higher level thinking in introductory biology
Summary
Bloom’s taxonomy is a way of classifying learning outcomes (and, increasingly, assessment questions) by the cognitive skill level required to achieve or answer them. These labs endeavor to provide your students with a scaffolded learning experience, with questions ranging from those targeting basic recall and understanding, to application, analysis, evaluation, and creation. Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) is a tool that allows students to build logical arguments to present and defend their experimental findings. As a scaffold, CER promotes argumentation, which is agreed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Vision and Change report (2011) to be a facet of scientific inquiry. In addition, many of the labs contain guided inquiry extensions, promoting scientific literacy by allowing more advanced students to choose and investigate their own research questions.
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