ArticleCBE life sciences education2026
The Conclusion Assessment Rubric (CAR): A Tool to Evaluate Students' Ability to Make Context-Driven Claims with Appropriate Scope from Experimental Biological Evidence.
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Few tools exist to thoroughly assess undergraduate students' ability to generate evidence-based conclusions from research inquiries, a higher-order reasoning skill aligned with the Vision & Change Process of Science core competency. To fill this gap, we created the Conclusion Assessment Rubric (CAR), building on the experimentation competency framework developed by biology educators and literature on scientific argumentation. The CAR is a comprehensive evaluation of students' achievement of learning outcomes, integrating key aspects of knowledge building in biology. The CAR had an intraclass coefficient of 0.7 (
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