This page collects the publication PDFs currently bundled with the curriculum materials and points instructors to the main reasons they might use them.
Curriculum design and teaching use
Use this paper when you want a concise description of how the Avida-ED curriculum was structured for undergraduate biology teaching.
Student learning and assessment
- Exploring the relationship between experiences with digital evolution and students' scientific understanding and acceptance of evolution
- Evolution in Action in the Classroom: Engaging Students in Science Practices to Investigate and Explain Evolution by Natural Selection
Use these when you need evidence about how students respond to Avida-ED-based instruction, especially around scientific reasoning, evolution learning, and engagement with evidence.
Additional legacy references
The earlier curriculum page also referenced related curriculum publications that are not all bundled locally in this repo. Those references are still useful as part of the project history, but the files listed above are the publication assets currently carried directly by this site.
How to use this page
- Read these alongside Quick Start when planning a first classroom use.
- Read them alongside Digital Evolution when you need the broader conceptual background for a course, report, or proposal.