CREATE for STEM Institute
Dr. Juli Uhl
Instructor and Research Associate
About

I am a Research Associate with the Automated Analysis of Constructed Response (AACR) Research group. I earned my BS in Agricultural Biochemistry in 2004 and an MS in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Iowa State University in 2007. I earned my PhD in Molecular and Developmental Biology program at the University of Cincinnati/Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 2014, where I studied the molecular interactions between Hox transcription factors and cofactors to control gene expression. Following that, I was an Educator Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Cincinnati. While teaching I became increasingly interested in conducting Biology Education Research and joined CREATE for STEM in 2018. My work in the AACR group is focused on developing and applying open-response biology assessments with associated computer-automated scoring models.

Current Projects

  • Application of a computer-scoring model to measure student learning after completion of an online, interactive tutorial about cellular respiration.
  • Development of assessment items to capture undergraduate explanations about the genetic processes of transcription and epigenetics.
  • Information on these and other assessment items available at beyondmultiplechoice.org

Publications

Uhl, J.D., Shiroda, M., Haudek, K. (2022) Developing assessments to elicit and characterize undergraduate mechanistic explanations about information flow in biology, Journal of Biological Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2022.2041460

Uhl, J. D., Sripathi, K. N., Meir, E., Merrill, J., Urban-Lurain, M., & Haudek, K. C. (2021). Automated Writing Assessments Measure Undergraduate Learning After Completion of a Computer-based Cellular Respiration Tutorial. CBE - Life Sciences Education, 20(3). https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-06-0122

Uhl, J.D., Sripathi, K. N., Saldanha, J. N., Moscarella, R. A., Merrill, J., Urban-Lurain, M., & Haudek, K. C. (2021). Introductory biology undergraduate students’ mixed ideas about genetic information flow. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 49(3), 372–382. https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21483

Courses

HBIO 495: Senior Capstone course for Human Biology Majors. 

NSC 490: Special Topics in Cell Biology