Organismal Biology Using Online Quizzes

BIOL 201 (Biology of Organisms) is the second course in a three-course sequence required for Biology majors. It is a large lecture class (230+ students) with multiple lab sections. Because of the size of the class and because the nature of the labs is so different from the more experimental labs in the preceding course (Biology of the Cell), students are often disoriented and do not study effectively. This project partially flips instructional delivery, implementing on-line pre-quizzes for labs to ensure that students understand material and can put lab material in perspective before being confronted with it, thereby making their lab experience more effective.