Welcome.  Our goal is to generate, test and distribute tools needed to determine what students are thinking (about science) and whether they learning what teachers think they are teaching.  We assume that such information will encourage rigorous learning of science in general, and biology in particular.

Why? Because a wide range of personal, social, ethical, economic and political decisions depend upon understanding basic biology and how science generates working knowledge of the world around and within us.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science - Charles Darwin.

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Supported in part  by the NSF and
a John Doctor prize from the Society for Developmental Biology

and by profits from the Bioliteracy shop at cafepress.com

BCI.V1 is available - contact us to sign up your class.

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