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| - The [Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II)|http://www.first2.org ] project is developing new metadata standards for assessment in biological education to facilitate the exchange of educational assessment data. Participants will be developing means for semantically describing assessment instruments to allow comparison of different assessment techniques. |  
| + The [Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST II)|http://www.first2.org ] project is developing new metadata standards for assessment in biological education. Participants will develop means to semantically describe assessment instruments, student responses, assessment settings, and concept categories. Faculty will use the ontologies to find assessments and student responses, manage and document assessment data, and facilitate the exchange of educational assessment data. |  
 
           
      
      
      
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