1. Products / Reflections / … UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES?
NW Biology instructors Conference 2016
Mapping and covering Vision and Change Competencies
University of Washington Department of Biology
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Horacio de la Iglesia, Jennifer Doherty, Jennifer Ruesink and Ben Wiggins
VISION – A strategy to assure training of biology students on Vision & Change Competencies
MAIN GOAL– Based on discussions with our Faculty, to develop an online survey that maps the coverage of each Competency in our undergraduate curriculum
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ACTIONS
BARRIERS & CHALLENGES
Products / Reflections / …
Organize Faculty discussions to agree on Competencies—from ‘Vision and Change’ and other sources—to be covered in our curriculum. Define 4 competencies that align with Vision and Change.
Design Faculty survey to assess competency coverage in each course taught
Obtain Faculty time for discussions
Agreeing on meaningful and implementable competencies for our Department
Products:
A set of 4 Competencies their sib competencies based on Faculty input
Assessments:
Developed on-line 15min/course survey to map competencies in the curriculum
RESOURCES & ALLIES
SUSTAINABILITY
Expertise from Department staff, faculty and student on survey implementation
On-line platforms for Survey implementation
STRENGTHS & LEVERAGE
We will implement our Competency Survey during spring 2016
Results will be analyzed by the UPC and a plan of action will be designed to cover uncovered items in each competency
We are willing to share any of our materials with the PULSE community and we’d love to hear about similar efforts
Our team developed the strategy as part of the activities of the Undergraduate Program Committee (UPC) at the UW Department of Biology, of witch we are members. This greatly facilitated our task and we are deeply thankful to the remaining members of the UPC.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES?
FUTURE GOALS
Vision and Change Competencies have become a discussion topic among the Biology faculty.
Determine which competencies are well covered and reward people responsible for these courses.
Detect gaps in competency coverage and implement curriculum changes to bridge them
This work was supported in part by an NSF RCN UBE award #