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Meeting report: BioMolViz workshops for developing assessments of biomolecular visual literacy
Author(s) -
Procko Kristen,
Engelman Shelly,
Jakubowski Henry,
Beckham Josh T.,
Dean Diane M.,
Franzen Margaret A.,
Novak Walter R. P.,
Roberts Rebecca,
Roca Alberto I.,
Shor Audrey C.,
Terrell Cassidy R.,
Dries Daniel R.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
biochemistry and molecular biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1539-3429
pISSN - 1470-8175
DOI - 10.1002/bmb.21440
Subject(s) - rubric , visual literacy , visualization , scientific literacy , literacy , mathematics education , engineering ethics , computer science , psychology , science education , pedagogy , engineering , artificial intelligence
While molecular visualization has been recognized as a threshold concept in biology education, the explicit assessment of students' visual literacy skills is rare. To facilitate the evaluation of this fundamental ability, a series of NSF‐IUSE‐sponsored workshops brought together a community of faculty engaged in creating instruments to assess students' biomolecular visualization skills. These efforts expanded our earlier work in which we created a rubric describing overarching themes, learning goals, and learning objectives that address student progress toward biomolecular visual literacy. Here, the BioMolViz Steering Committee ( BioMolViz.org ) documents the results of those workshops and uses social network analysis to examine the growth of a community of practice. We also share many of the lessons we learned as our workshops evolved, as they may be instructive to other members of the scientific community as they organize workshops of their own.