Join us and the SABER community for an engaging conversation about the challenges and opportunities in fostering metacognition among undergraduate biology students.
This panel features two distinguished experts:
Dr. Jenny Knight (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Dr. Jaime Sabel (The Ohio State University)
Together, they’ll share their journeys into metacognition research, highlight evidence-based strategies they’ve implemented in their courses, and offer a glimpse into emerging innovations we can expect in the next five years.
Audience participation is encouraged—bring your questions and ideas to this dynamic discussion!
Hosted by Codon Learning
Dr. Alexa Clemmons, Codon’s Director of Product, will emcee the event and provide a brief overview of how Codon Learning integrates metacognition into coursework.
Dr. Jenny Knight has been teaching biology courses at all levels in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder for over 20 years. Her work as a Biology Education Researcher has included developing concept assessments to diagnose student misunderstandings and measure learning gains, developing and facilitating workshops on scientific teaching (with NIST), and studying how students learn by engage in complex problem solving, reasoning, and self-regulation. She was a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), and its president (2019-2020). She is the course director of Codon Learning’s genetics curriculum: Principles of Genetics.
Dr. Jaime Sabel is Associate Professor and Director in Center for Life Sciences Education at the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the effective use of various classroom learning scaffolds to support undergraduate students in learning biology. She teaches undergraduate biology courses and graduate science college teaching courses.
Dr. Alexa Clemmons is Codon’s Director of Product. After earning her Ph.D. in genetics at the University of California San Diego, Alexa transitioned to discipline-based education research at the University of Washington. Her postdoctoral work unpacked the AAAS Vision and Change core competencies by first defining measurable learning outcomes and then developing curriculum mapping tools. During her PhD and postdoc, Alexa got to teach a variety of courses, trying her hand at the evidence-based teaching approaches that Codon promotes and learning their joys and challenges. At Codon, Alexa directs the platform’s feature development, with the goal of making evidence-based teaching and learning practices more effective and easier to use.