Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II)

The Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II) project is developing new metadata standards for assessment in biological education. Participants will develop means to semantically describe assessment instruments, student responses, assessment settings, and concept categories. Faculty will use the ontologies to find assessments and student responses, manage and document assessment data, and facilitate the exchange of educational assessment data. In this project, FIRST researchers are collaborating with the informatics team at NCEAS to build data systems for representing, collating, and analyzing educational assessment data.