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Kameryn Denaro; Marco Molinaro; Stefano Fiorini; Rebecca L. Matz; Chris Mead; Meryl Motika; Nita Tarchinski; Montserrat Valdivia Medinaceli; W. Carson Byrd; Benjamin Koester; Hye Rin Lee; Timothy McKay; Brian K. Sato – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Examining institutional data from seven cohorts of students intending to major in biology across five research-intensive institutions, this work analyzes opportunity gaps -- defined as the difference between the grade received by students from the dominant and nondominant sociodemographic groups in institutions of higher education -- at the…
Descriptors: College Students, First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students
Bejar, Isaac I.; And Others – 1977
Information provided by typical and improved conventional classroom achievement tests was compared with information provided by an adaptive test covering the same subject matter. Both tests were administered to over 700 college students in a general biology course. Using the same scoring method, adaptive testing was found to yield substantially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Biology