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Cellular respiration - Weight loss

Q.

You have a friend that lost 15 lbs on a diet. Where did the mass go?

Audiences:

Undergraduate

Topics:

Biology,  V & C Core Concept 4: Energy and Matter Pathways and Transformations,  V & C Core Concept 5: Systems,  Diagnostic Question Cluster

Background Information

The following question is modified from BioDQC (Diagnostic Question Cluster) project. This is an open response version of such a question.  It assess whether students can keep track of matter, while traversing biological scales. We use this question in introductory biology courses.

Associated Publications

Mixed Student Ideas about Mechanisms of Human Weight Loss

Kamali Sripathi, Rosa Moscarella, Rachel Yoho, Hye You, Mark Urban-Lurain, John Merrill, Kevin Haudek, 2019

Automated Writing Assessments Measure Undergraduate Learning after Completion of a Computer-Based Cellular Respiration Tutorial

Juli Uhl, Kamali Sripathi, Eli Meir, John Merrill, Mark Urban-Lurain, Kevin Haudek, 2021

Comparison of Computer Scoring Model Performance for Short Text Responses Across Undergraduate Institutional Types

Megan Shiroda, Juli Uhl, Mark Urban-Lurain, Kevin Haudek, 2021

Question Instructions

We recommend that you administer these questions as homework and preface the question with these instructions for students:

"For the following question, please respond to the best of your knowledge and using only the information in the question and what you know. Please do not refer to any outside sources (textbooks, notes, internet, etc.). Any reasonable attempt to answer the question will be awarded full credit."

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