Table 1.

Timeline of the BIO 181 redesign process

Time period	Accomplishment
Summer 2006	Received grant funding. Faculty developed essential learning expectations and table of specifications. Pre/posttest measure was created.
Fall 2006	Pre/posttest first administered (481 students). Classroom response system (clickers) was piloted. A plan to teach chemistry in context was developed.
Spring 2007	First implementation of teaching chemistry in context. Pre/posttest administered (356 students). Applied for additional grant funding.
Summer 2007	Results of pre/posttest and student satisfaction survey were analyzed. Initial analysis of variance showed that there was a significant difference among the four sections of BIO 181, meaning that some students performed better in some sections than others statistically.
Fall 2007	Biweekly meetings to reach consensus on course goals; determine essential course content; reorganize topic sequence; strategize means to embed chemistry on a need-to-know basis; and create common syllabus, course outline, and skeleton for PowerPoint presentations. Received grant funding.
Spring 2008	Pilot revised syllabus and PowerPoints. Added clicker questions, animations, and group work activities to PowerPoint presentations. Finalized BIO 181 Toolbox (online resource for instructors). Online quizzes became available.
Summer 2008	BIO 181 Toolbox was available on website. Common syllabus and pre/posttest were revised. Labs were redesigned.
Fall 2008/Spring 2009	Common syllabus and revised lecture curriculum implementation by all instructors. Bimonthly meetings to expand quiz bank, clicker question pools, and group work assignments. Redesigned labs were piloted.
Fall 2009/Spring 2010	Full implementation of lab redesign.