Teacher questions and student answers that were used to build up the classroom simulation SCRBio in the context of evolution. The SCRBio is a digital learning environment in which the user steps into the role of a teacher to perform a virtual teaching sequence to diagnose virtual students' answers and overall performance (Fischer et al., 2022). Questions are based on the original ideas of the “Accessing contextual reasoning about natural selection” instrument (ACORNS; Nehm et al., 2012). Student answers are derived from original answers but modified and adapted for the level conditions used within the SCRBio. References: Fischer, J., Machts, N., Bruckermann, T., Möller, J., & Harms, U. (2022). The Simulated Classroom Biology—A simulated classroom environment for capturing the action-oriented professional knowledge of pre-service teachers about evolution. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(6), 1765-1778. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12718 Nehm, R. H., Beggrow, E. P., Opfer, J. E., & Ha, M. (2012). Reasoning about natural selection: Diagnosing contextual competency using the ACORNS instrument. The American Biology Teacher, 74(2), 92–98. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2012.74.2.6

The material contains two data sets and the corresponding Code Manual. The data sets are divided into teacher questions (data set 1) and student answers (data set 2).