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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 - 3:45 PM
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On-line Taxonomic Certification
Trefor B. Reynoldson, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS B2R 4P6, Canada
In August 2004 NABS initiated the Taxonomic Certification Program. This was a response to concerns expressed to the NABS leadership by a number of state and federal agencies (e.g., Kentucky, North Carolina; Environment Canada, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Geological Survey) that (A) there are many errors and inaccuracies associated with the taxonomy of some on-going programs; (B) there is no recognized protocol in North America for evaluating the taxonomic ability of people identifying invertebrates; and (C) academic support for faculty positions and student training related to non-molecular, organismal taxonomy is declining. The programme has two main elements. Genus level testing that is specimen based, and family level testing that is image based and is conducted "on line". The family level test consists of 60 specimen image sets selected randomly from a library of image sets. The candidate is given 60 minutes of real time in which to complete the test, after which they are automatically informed of their score. The development of the online images based testing will be further described and demonstrated in this presentation. You may check the online test at: http://www.nabstcp.com/NABSTCPHome/TestDescriptions/Level1FamilyTest/tabid/70/Default.aspx
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