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CBAT: Biology
PROGRAM PURPOSE
This three-part series, containing nearly 300 questions, is
intended to help prepare students for the College Board
Achievement Test in Biology. The questions in these practice
tests, like those in the actual achievement test, are divided
into three types: cellular and molecular, organismal, and
ecological and evolutionary. These three types are represented
in roughly equal proportions in the tests. More specifically,
the questions in the practice tests cover material presented in a
standard high-school biology curriculum:
1. Cellular and Molecular Biology
2. Reproduction, Growth, and Development
3. Ecology
4. Genetics and Evolution
5. Organismal Biology
6. Systematics
7. Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous questions test knowledge of the history of science,
scientific methodology, and systematics. Ecology questions test
knowledge of parasitism and disease. Organismal Biology covers
the topics of morphology (anatomy) and physiology.
The content of these practice tests reflects current trends in
the teaching of certain topics. At the present time, there is
less emphasis than before on plant life cycles, and more on
cellular, molecular, and ecological concepts.
The questions are designed to measure not only what the students
know of the subject matter, but also how effectively they can use
the knowledge. This latter aspect can be described in terms of
six educational objectives: knowledge, comprehension,
application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The last three
objectives are considered to require higher-level skills. The
practice tests are structured so that the questions become
progressively more difficult in attempting to meet these six
objectives.
RECALL - Questions measuring recall emphasize memorization.
Students who do well in science know many facts and can answer
questions by remembering them. Since being able to apply facts is
even more important than knowing them, questions requiring mere
recall of facts do not make up a major part of the tests.
COMPREHENSION - Most of the questions related to this objective
require the translation of information presented in the question
into another form. For instance, the question may state a law or
principle in words; the answer may describe the same information
by a graph, an equation, a set of data, or an example.
APPLICATION - Questions addressing this objective require not
only that students know a law, principle, or concept, but also
that they recognize its application in a particular situation.
ANALYSIS - Analysis questions emphasize the breakdown of a
relatively extensive communication into its constituent parts.
Students need to recognize the relationships among the the
various parts of the communication.
SYNTHESIS - Synthesis questions emphasize the putting together of
elements of parts in such a way as to produce a pattern or
structure not clearly present before.
EVALUATION - Evaluative skills are challenged by questions that
require the simultaneous use of more than one criterion to select
the correct answer. One of the criteria is likely to involve the
application of a scienctific principle or concept, and the other
usually is a criterion of quality.
PROGRAM CONTENTS
College Board Achievement Biology consists of three parts, I, II,
and III. CBAT: Biology I has six practice tests. CBAT: Biology
II has seven practice tests. CBAT: Biology III has six practice
tests.