Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201- General Zoology
School/Unit: School of Sciences
Submitted by: J. Ellsworth
Academic Year: 2009-2010
Complete and submit your assessment report to your Academic Dean. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or a narrative description of the assessment activities in your
program/discipline.
Program/Discipline
Outcomes
In the boxes below,
summarize the outcomes
assessed in your program or
discipline during the last
year.
Outcome #1: Be able to
distinguish and explain the
major characteristics of the
nine major animal phyla.
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
In the boxes below, summarize the
methods used to assess program,
discipline, or course outcomes
during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
the results of your assessment
activities during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
how you are or how you plan to
use the results to improve student
learning.
Pre-test assessment where students
are asked to fill in their knowledge
and then the same format asked
again on the final exam (see
attached).
Seventeen students took both the
pre-assessment and the final
exam. One student was retaking
the course and his data were
omitted from the analysis. For a
summary of the gains in
knowledge, see below:
The students gained tremendous
knowledge in the nine major
animal phyla, see below:
Effect on the
Program/Discipline
Based on the results of this
assessment, will you revise
your outcomes? If so, please
summarize how and why in the
boxes below.
This was the first time
assessing this course and this
instructor’s first attempt at
using a qualitative/open ended
assessment tool. The instructor
plans to develop a less
subjective assessment that is
easier to score.
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Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201- General Zoology
School/Unit: School of Sciences
Submitted by: J. Ellsworth
Academic Year: 2009-2010
Summary of data for 9 Phyla from 16 students (omitting the one student who retook the course):
Phylum Name
Characteristics listed on the Pre-Assessment
Porifera (sponges)
Cnidaria (jellies)
Don’t know
Invertebrate
Aquatic
Nothing
Porous
Reproduce by budding
?
Nothing
No
Don’t know
They like to populate around coral
Nothing
Non moving
Nothing
Have pores
Sessile
Nothing
Have tentacles
Have spines with toxins
Nothing
Nothing
Some can kill you
No bones
No
Nothing
?
Nothing
No spines
Nothing
Aquatic
Invertebrate
Characteristics listed on the Post-Assessment
Primarily marine, some freshwater
Have choanocytes
Three body forms (ascon, sycon, leucon)
Sessile
Bodies perforated by pores
Multicellular with no true tissues
Asymmetrical
Spongoceol is the central cavity and the opening is
the osculum
Hermaphrodites
Classified by make-up of skeletons, with either
sponging or spicules of calcium carbonate
Filter feeders
Basal animals on the evolutionary tree
Diploblastic
Diploblastic
Medusa and polyp body forms
Radially symmetric
Aquatic, sessile or motile
True tissues
Specialized stinging cells called cnidocytes, which
contain nematocycts
Gastrovascular cavity with one opening for mouth
and anus
Multicellular aceolomates
Carnivorous or filter feeders
Eumetazoans
No organs
Mouth lined with tentacles used to capture food
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201- General Zoology
School/Unit: School of Sciences
Submitted by: J. Ellsworth
Academic Year: 2009-2010
Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
Nematoda (roundworms)
Simple brain
Don’t know
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Similar to intestinal worms?
Nothing
?
Nothing
The worm is flat…
Don’t know
Nothing
Nothing
Sections and parasites
GI parasites
Grow inside body of animals/humans
1 cm width, closed circulatory system
Don’t know
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Affect dogs
Spread through fecal matter
?
Nothing
Round, under the skin
Don’t know
Seen as a parasite for animals
Nothing
Sections water pressure to move
Nothing
Can be in feces and can cause blindness
Parasitic
Bilateral, distinct head
Triploblastic, contains ectoderm, endoderm, and
mesoderm
Has true tissues
Soft bodied, some parasitic, some free living
Has nervous system, with ganglia and nerve cord
Protonephridia “flame cells” for waste removal
No internal cavity, aceolomates
Flattened body
No segmentation
Incomplete digestive track, gastovascular cavity has
one opening (one opening for mouth and anus)
No skeletal, circulatory, or respiratory systems
Hermaphrodites, some sexual
Fine branches of gastrovascular cavity distributes
food directly to cells (via diffusion)
Bilaterally symmetric
Tough cuticle coats the body
Pseudoceolomate
With simple nervous system
True tissues
Unsegmented, tapered at both ends
Subterminal anus
Whip-like body movements from longitudinal
muscles
Very abundant in soil
Undergo ecdysis
Free living and parasitic
Lack circulatory system and respiratory system
Have complete digestive track, alimentary canal
Important in study of development (C. elegans)
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201- General Zoology
School/Unit: School of Sciences
Submitted by: J. Ellsworth
Academic Year: 2009-2010
Annelida (segmented worms)
Have segmented bodies
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Reproduce through their segments
?
Nothing
No
Don’t know
Nothing
May or may not have legs, burrowing
Nothing
Nothing
They live in the ground
Movement of hydrostatic skeleton
Segmented, except for leeches
Schizoceolous
Triploblastic, bilateral coelomates
Closed circulatory system, with a series of hearts
Small brain-like structure and nervous system with
ventral nerve cord
Live in many environments, terrestrial (moist),
marine and freshwater
Complex organ systems
True tissues
Complete digestive track
Most have setae, external bristles
Some have chaeta or parapodia
Hydrostatic skeleton
Circular and longitudinal muscles
Respiration across body surface
Mollusca (mollusks)
Don’t know
Invertebrates, shells
Nothing
Nothing
Live on side of rocks
Unipedal
?
Nothing
No
Don’t know
Nothing
Nothing
Shells
Nothing
Soft bodied, many with protective shell
True coelom
Three distinct body parts, head foot, visceral mass,
mantle
Radula used for scraping food
Complete digestive track with mouth and anus
Complex stomach
Bilateral, triploblastic
Some lack hard shell, cephalopoda
Nervous system with ganglia and paired nerve cords
Some open, others closed circulatory system, with
heard and aorta
Sexual reproductive
Go through trophophore stage
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201- General Zoology
School/Unit: School of Sciences
Submitted by: J. Ellsworth
Academic Year: 2009-2010
?
Jet propulsion, ability to camouflage, head foot
Cephalopods have complex sensory organs and are
intelligent
Arthropoda (includes insects)
Segmented, external skeleton
Have 6 legs and outer skeleton
Exoskeleton
Hard shell, digestive tract
Wings, legs, have exoskeleton?
Nothing
Don’t know
No
Nothing
?
6 legs
6 legs, made of 3 sections
Nothing
Hard shell, more than 6 legs
Exterior casing, exoskeleton
Have an exoskeleton
Vast majority of known species in this group
Segmented, with chitinous exoskeleton
Paired, jointed appendages used for walking,
defense, feeding, flying
Bilateral
Three main body regions: head, thorax, abdomen
Open circulatory system with hemolymph
Nervous system with brain
Shed exoskeleton through ecdysis to grow
Triploblastic
Coelomates
Respiratory system, tracheal system
Aquatic species with gills for gas exchange
Marine, freshwater and terrestrial
Well developed sensory organs, eyes, antennae
Echinodermata (sea stars)
Have exoskeleton
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
6 legs, salt water, you cut legs and they grow back
Nothing
?
Nothing
Sea horse, sea based creature…
Don’t know
5 appendages
Nothing
Walk on arms or with suction cups
Bilaterally symmetric (larval stage), but not as
adults, which are more radially symmetric
Radial cleavage
Have water vascular system and tube feet for
movement with ampulla and podia
Triploblastic, coelomates
Deuterostome clade
Marine
Spiny skinned
Thin epidermis covers hard calcareous plates
Body shape highly variable
Regeneration of body parts
Sexual reproduction
Program/Discipline/Course Assessment Report
Discipline: Biology
Course Number: BIOL 201- General Zoology
School/Unit: School of Sciences
Submitted by: J. Ellsworth
Academic Year: 2009-2010
Can be divided into five
?
Radial symmetry
Chordata (includes vertebrates)
Backbone
?
Has a spine
Full digestive tract
Nothing
Nothing
Don’t know
Anything with a backbone…
Nothing
?
Nothing
None
Nothing
Spinal cord
Vertebrates, development usually complete in utero
Have a spine, have a nervous system
Possess a notochord
90% have backbones
Eumetazoans
Includes tunicates and sea squirts (invertebrates)
Includes fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals
Many are craniates
Bilateral
Triploblastic
Coelomate
Muscular post-anal tail, pharyngeal slits, dorsal
hollow nerve cord at some point during
development
Closed circulatory system with heart
Complete digestive tract
Some with bony or cartilaginous skeletons
Deuterostomes