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Community Page Recognizing Student Misconceptions through Ed’s Tools and the Biology Concept Inventory Michael W. Klymkowsky , Kathy Garvin-Doxas * O ver the past decade, workers in physics education research have developed effective instructional methods and materials (e.g., workshop physics [1]; lecture demonstrations [2]; tutorials in network function [12–14], immune system regulation, genome and gene structure [15,16], and presumably homeostatic and adaptive mechanisms in general [17,18]. evidenced by students taught through standard lecture methods [23] helped trigger the current reform movement in physics education. Odom and colleagues [24] developed an instrument that The importance of random introductory physics [3]) based on research into student thinking. A Socratic process of questioning and careful analysis of responses can processes in biological systems leads to the obvious question, how well are these concepts currently taught—and understood? The academic study of understanding of randomness among students and the public has a long history, beginning with Piaget and Inhelder ([19]; see also Lecoutre et al., 2006 [20], and references therein). It is well known that understanding the nature and signi?cance of random processes in either abstract scienti?c systems or “real life” is not easy. Taleb [21] discusses this topic as it applies to our social, ?nancial, and personal experiences and how we interpret their meaning. Lecoutre et al. [20] describe an enlightening study of concepts of randomness and probability among French middle school students, examined student understanding of diffusion and osmosis, processes that depend upon the random movement of molecules, while the Biology Concept Inventory or BCI (Box 1; http:// /) contains a number of questions speci?cally targeted to conceptual areas in which randomness plays a role [25]. The ?rst step in developing the questions related to randomness on the BCI was collecting data from open- ended questions