SimBio examines whether location affects students' quality of learning One benefit of building interactive tutorials with auto-graded questions …
Study Confirms the Importance of Feedback
Eleven years ago, SimBio received a grant from the National Science Foundation to “develop techniques for automatically providing immediate formative …
Highlights from SABER
While it was not my first time going to the Society for the Advancement of Biological Education Research (SABER)’s annual meeting, it was my first …
Big Ideas from SABER
Finding inspiration at my first in-person conference in over two years. One silver-lining of the pandemic was not getting on an airplane for over two …
Helping Students Become Better Graphers
Biology education research is a core aspect of SimBio’s teaching tools, and many SimBio content developers participate in our research …
Beyond Multiple Choice
The Answers are in the Questions! One of the reasons I enjoy working at SimBio (after three decades of building biology education software) is that …
Collaborative Testing
Modern-day science is a collaborative enterprise. That's true of most other professions as well, so learning to work and solve problems with others is …
Better feedback through Cyberlearning
With the start of a new academic year comes the dreaded, seemingly never-ending stream of grading. Grading, and providing feedback to students in …
Tips on Tests
I'm just returning from what is becoming one of my favorite conferences, the SABER meeting on biology education research. As a company that is driven …
