Recent national reports call for increasing the quantitative acumen of biology students. The BioSQuaRE represents an assessment tool based on such reports. The iterative development of the instrument by science and mathematics faculty in collaboration with educational psychologists is described, and the tool’s psychometric properties are summarized.
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