{"id":6433,"date":"2026-09-10T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:00:07","slug":"ntc-faculty-helps-develop-new-student-outcome-guidelines-for-biology-instructors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/2026\/09\/10\/ntc-faculty-helps-develop-new-student-outcome-guidelines-for-biology-instructors\/","title":{"rendered":"NTC Faculty Helps Develop New Student Outcome Guidelines for Biology Instructors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><strong>Karl Anderson<\/strong>, unlimited biology faculty who teaches NTC&rsquo;s Microbiology and Anatomy &amp; Physiology courses, was part of a 19-member task force that recently helped the American Society for Microbiology craft a series of guidelines to help faculty teaching undergraduate microbiology courses to develop measurable, student-centric learning outcomes for their courses. They are available worldwide as a resource for microbiology educators at <a href=\"http:\/\/=%20https:\/\/asm.org\/getmedia\/958d8169-9706-489c-9ad1-51a0513683b2\/2026-asm-example-student-learning-outcomes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ASM.org<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> (PDF download).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\">&ldquo;The outcomes are intended to help guide microbiology education and curriculum development,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\">Anderson has served the society in a variety of roles during his years of membership and saw the task force as an opportunity to contribute to something that could influence microbiology instruction on a global level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Anderson served on an American Society for Microbiology task force to develop new tools for undergrad instructors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,31,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-success","category-people","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions\/6435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}