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BI2021: BIOLOGICAL ENHANCED SKILLS TRAINING (BEST) (2021-2022)

Last modified: 31 May 2022 13:05


Course Overview

The course will help you consolidate and develop skills in experimental design, sampling, analysis, presentation, and interpretation of data. You will be encouraged to seek to improve your academic writing and develop other transferable skills.

Each week, there are one 1-2 recorded introductory lectures to help you prepare for the computer practicals.  In two 2-hour sessions you will work through a series of computer-based data tasks, using relevant and realistic biological and environmental themes.

Teaching is informal and friendly. During sessions, staff will chat to you about your progress and provide help where necessary.

Assessments are two online tests (each 25%) and an individual project (50%).

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Martin Barker

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Programme Level 2
  • One of BSc Biology or BSc Conservation Biology or BSc Zoology or BSc Animal Ecology or BSc Marine Biology or BSc Animal Behaviour or BSc Behavioural Biology or MSci Biological Sciences or BSc Biological Sciences (Honours) or BSc Plant and Soil Sciences or Bachelor Of Science In Environmental And Forest Management or BSc Ecology or BSc Wildlife Management or BSc Forestry or BSc Forest Sciences or BSc Environmental Science

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course will focus on a series of essential skills, associated with becoming an effective and successful biologist or environmental scientist. These enhanced skills include hypothesis formulation, experimental design, data distributions and probability, data handling descriptive and inferential statistics, and interpreting data in terms of biological or environmental science. The emphasis throughout will be on: Consolidating existing skills; developing new skills and preparing the way for Level 3 courses in SBS.






Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Project: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks 20 Feedback Weeks 25

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateDetermine the strengths and limitations of an experimental design.
FactualRememberDemonstrate a familiarity and understanding of some key principles
ProceduralAnalyseOrganise, summarise and analyse sets of data
ProceduralApplyApply knowledge to interpret patterns in data.

Class Test

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 25
Assessment Weeks 18 Feedback Weeks 19

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateDetermine the strengths and limitations of an experimental design.
FactualRememberDemonstrate a familiarity and understanding of some key principles
ProceduralAnalyseOrganise, summarise and analyse sets of data
ProceduralApplyApply knowledge to interpret patterns in data.

Class Test

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 25
Assessment Weeks 13 Feedback Weeks 14

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateDetermine the strengths and limitations of an experimental design.
FactualRememberDemonstrate a familiarity and understanding of some key principles
ProceduralAnalyseOrganise, summarise and analyse sets of data
ProceduralApplyApply knowledge to interpret patterns in data.

Formative Assessment

Class Test

Assessment Type Formative Weighting
Assessment Weeks 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 Feedback Weeks 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16

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Formative assessments- students will be given automated feedback on tests in MyAberdeen.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualRememberDemonstrate a familiarity and understanding of some key principles
ProceduralAnalyseOrganise, summarise and analyse sets of data
ProceduralApplyApply knowledge to interpret patterns in data.
ConceptualEvaluateDetermine the strengths and limitations of an experimental design.

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