Reassess-Realign-Reimagine: A Guide for Mentors Pivoting to Remote Research Mentoring.

Maintaining your research team's productivity during the COVID-19 era can be a challenge. Developing new strategies to mentor your research trainees in remote work environments will not only support research productivity and progress toward degree, but also help to keep your mentees' academic and research careers on track. We describe a three-step process grounded in reflective practice that research mentors and mentees can use together to , , and their mentoring relationships to enhance their effectiveness, both in the current circumstances and for the future.

A Biology Core Concept Instrument (BCCI) to Teach and Assess Student Conceptual Understanding.

Instruments for teaching and assessing student understanding of the five core concepts in biology from are needed. We developed four Biology Core -Concept Instruments (BCCIs) that teach and assess students' ability to describe a concept in their own words, identify concepts represented in biological phenomena, and make connections between concepts. The BCCI includes a narrative, followed by a series of 10 true-false/identify (TF/I) and three open-ended questions.