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Rissanen, Anna; Costello, Jane M. – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Online resources can be helpful for students and can augment the content presented in learning environments. A team consisting of four biologists, a graduate student, instructional designer and media developers collaborated on the design, development and evaluation of first-year biology online tutorials in a Canadian University. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Interaction, Online Courses, Tutorial Programs
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Uhl, Juli D.; Sripathi, Kamali N.; Meir, Eli; Merrill, John; Urban-Lurain, Mark; Haudek, Kevin C. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
The focus of biology education has shifted from memorization to conceptual understanding of core biological concepts such as matter and energy relationships. To examine undergraduate learning about matter and energy, we incorporated constructed-response (CR) questions into an interactive computer-based tutorial. The objective of this tutorial is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Writing Evaluation, Science Education, Biology
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Hubbard, Katharine E.; Brown, Rachel; Deans, Sam; García, María Paz; Pruna, Mihai-Grigore; Mason, Matthew J. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2017
Undergraduate students are increasingly working with academic staff to evaluate and design teaching materials in Higher Education, thereby moving from being passive consumers of knowledge to genuine partners in their education. Here we describe a student partnership project run at the University of Cambridge, which aimed to improve undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, College Science, Biology
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Kramer, Maxwell; Olson, Dalay; Walker, J. D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Explicit emphasis on teaching science process skills leads to both gains in the skills themselves and, strikingly, deeper understanding of content. Here, we created and tested a series of online, interactive tutorials with the goal of helping undergraduate students develop science process skills. We designed the tutorials in accordance with…
Descriptors: Design, Tutorial Programs, Science Process Skills, Science Instruction
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Hodgson, Yvonne; Benson, Robyn; Brack, Charlotte – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
This article reports on a programme in which peer-assisted learning (PAL) was combined with case-based learning (CBL) in a second-year radiologic biology unit of study. Our aim is to explore evidence of whether PAL supported the development of qualitative conceptions of learning. The programme involved students in small PAL groups preparing and…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Radiology, Biology
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Craig, Cindy L.; Friehs, Curt G. – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
This study compared two common types of online information literacy tutorials: a streaming media tutorial using animation and narration and a text-based tutorial with static images. Nine sections of an undergraduate biology lab class (234 students total) were instructed by a librarian on how to use the BIOSIS Previews database. Three sections…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Online Searching, Animation, Comparative Analysis
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O'Day, Danton H. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2007
Previous work has established that a narrated animation is more effective at communicating a complex biological process (signal transduction) than the equivalent graphic with figure legend. To my knowledge, no study has been done in any subject area on the effectiveness of animations versus graphics in the long-term retention of information, a…
Descriptors: Animation, Retention (Psychology), Long Term Memory, Biology
Bakshi, Trilochan S.; Oddie, Lily – 1978
This study investigated the appropriateness both to the delivery system and to students of Athabasca University of the audiotutorial method of instruction in an introductory level Biology course, which used selections of audiotutorial materials from "Minicourses in Biology." Evaluation data were gathered by using pre-post test (content)…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Autoinstructional Aids, Biology, Curriculum Evaluation
Hedges, Larry V.; Majer, Kenneth – 1976
The results of an evaluation of the Provost's Tutorial Fellowship Program (PTFP), the Tutorial Clinics and an interpersonal communications skills workshop are presented along with recommendations for change. The PTFP met its three objectives: Over 90 percent of the tutees who received a letter grade passed the course (objective 1). A formal system…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education
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Lietz, Petra – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1996
Results from 291 first-year Australian college students with learning and writing difficulties (language minorities or students from other countries) suggest a direct effect of those difficulties on performance in first-year biology. College language and learning services that address areas in which students recognize their difficulties may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Students, English (Second Language)
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Huppert, Jehuda; Lazarowitz, Reuven – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1990
In this study, students' achievement using three individualized audiotutorial (IAT) biology learning units was investigated. The method of instruction, gender, academic achievement in mathematics and biology, and students' IQ levels were compared. (KR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiovisual Instruction, Biology, Individual Instruction