Mixed Student Ideas about Mechanisms of Human Weight Loss.

We described student responses as conforming to either Scientific, Mixed, or Developing descriptive models, which had an average of 1.9 ± 0.6, 3.1 ± 0.9, and 1.7 ± 0.8 ideas per response, respectively. Such heterogeneous student thinking is characteristic of difficulties in both conceptual change and early expertise development and will require careful instructional intervention for lasting learning gains.
PMID: 31418653 [PubMed - in process]

Source: CBE Life Sciences Education - August 18, 2019 Category: Cytology Authors: Sripathi KN, Moscarella RA, Yoho R, You HS, Urban-Lurain M, Merrill J, Haudek K Tags: CBE Life Sci Educ Source Type: research