BS 131 Lecture Schedule:

Material included on Exam I:

WKS TOPIC      CH
I-IV Evolution
Systematics
Viruses
Bacteria
Protists
case study 1
18,19,20
23
24
24
25

Material included on Exam II:

WKS TOPIC CH
IV-VII

 

Fungi
Seedless Plants
Seed Plants
Animal Systematics
Porifera
Cnidariae
Ctenophora
Platyhelminthes
Nemertea
Nematodes
Rotifers

 26
27
28
29




30

Material included on Exam III:

WKS TOPIC CH
VII-X Mollusca
Annelida
Arthropods
Echinodermata
Chordates
Histology
tissues

30


31

38

Material included on Exam IV:

WKS TOPIC CH
XI
-XIV		 Digestion and Nutrition
Circulation
Gas Exchange
Controlling the Internal Environment
Endocrine System
 46
43
45
47
48

LECTURE GRADES:

Each exam will include information from lectures and reading assignments. All exams are of equal weight. A variety of questions will be used including multiple choice, short answer, matching, and essay. Questions will be designed to test different levels of thinking according to the model below:

TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: THE COGNITIVE DOMAIN*

Level One: Basic Knowledge

Definition: Students have to know specific facts, terms, and methods.

Assessment: Direct questions and multiple choice tests.

Level two: Comprehension

Definition: Students must show they understand the materials, ideas, facts, and theories.

Assessment: Students restate the material in their own words, reorder or extrapolate ideas, interpret, predict or estimate. Multiple choice questions can be used, but they would be of a different order.

Level Three: Application

Definition: Students must be able to apply their knowledge to real situations. Putting knowledge into action.

Assessment: Students will use information practically.

Level Four: Analysis

Definition: Students must be able to classify to break material down into its components, understand the relationship between the components, and recognize the principle that organizes the structure or the system.

Assessment: Students will be asked to identify the basic assumptions of material presented, to take the material apart and examine the pieces.

Level Five: Synthesis

Definition: Students must bring ideas together to form new ideas.

Assessment: Students will be asked to combine information to produce new ideas, methods, or procedures.

Level Six: Evaluation

Definition: Students will be able to evaluate information and ideas describing the standards used.

Assessment: Students will be asked to judge ideas according to established or created standards of judgement.

*based on Bloom, B. (ed.) 1956. Taxonomy of educational objectives, Handbook 1: Cognitive domain. New York:McKay.