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Kantorski, Brinley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Digital educational games have been a part of the educational landscape since the early 1970s. Since then, there has been a proliferation in the quantity, format, type, and quality of digital educational games available to classroom teachers. Despite this, the body of literature surrounding the effectiveness of these digital educational games…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Technology, Video Games, Program Effectiveness
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Funa, Aaron; Ricafort, Jhonner – Online Submission, 2019
Instructional material is an integral part of teaching and learning process. Validating instructional materials is imperative to ensure quality before widespread utilization. This study validated the developed Gamified Instructional Material (GIM) in genetics for grade 12 STEM students. It employed the descriptive-developmental research design…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Genetics, Grade 12, Secondary School Science
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Cox, Charles; Reynolds, Birdy; Schunn, Christian; Schuchardt, Anita – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2016
There are strong classroom ties between mathematics and the sciences of physics and chemistry, but those ties seem weaker between mathematics and biology. Practicing biologists realize both that there are interesting mathematics problems in biology, and that viewing classroom biology in the context of another discipline could support students'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Biology, Mathematics, Engineering
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Chandran, Katie Busch; Jarrett, Kevin; Wyss, James Michael – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2020
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the McWane Science Center have partnered for over 20 years to provide secondary students in Alabama opportunities to conduct inquiry-based, standards-aligned science labs. LabWorks (middle school) and GENEius (high school) programs offer multiple research laboratory experiences in which students…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Laboratories, School Community Programs, Science Teaching Centers
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Ben-Nun, Michal Stolarsky; Yarden, Anat – Journal of Biological Education, 2009
Learning modern genetics is challenging and students have difficulty acquiring a coherent cognitive mental model of abstract concepts such as DNA, bacteria and enzymes. Here we investigated students' mental models of genetics through analysis and interpretation of the discourse that took place while high-school students practised hands-on…
Descriptors: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Laboratory Experiments
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Hacisalihoglu, Gokhan; Hilgert, Uwe; Nash, E. Bruce; Micklos, David A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2008
Today's biology educators face the challenge of training their students in modern molecular biology techniques including genomics and bioinformatics. The Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has developed and disseminated a bench- and computer-based plant genomics curriculum for biology faculty. In 2007, a five-day…
Descriptors: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Workshops, College Faculty