‘Bums off seats’: measuring the effects of active learning in an undergraduate molecular biology curriculum

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dc.contributor.authorHeinemann JA
dc.contributor.authorGoldstien S
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-22T02:49:11Z
dc.date.available2021-09-22T02:49:11Z
dc.date.issued2020en
dc.date.updated2020-04-21T21:47:30Z
dc.description.abstractInstitution-crippling earthquakes limited teaching contact hours and range of teaching environments. New ways became needed to achieve the same learning outcomes in less time. Following that disaster new methods based on active and test enhanced learning were introduced into two undergraduate molecular biology courses. The courses had a mixture of lecture, laboratory and tutorial environments supported by digital online resources and assignments. The courses formed a series with one being an essential pre-requisite of the other. The introduced methods were assessed over multiple years for learning effectiveness relative to defined goals. Test enhanced learning had a significant effect on students in the lower level course, but was ineffective for higher level learners. Skills learned through test enhanced learning, however, did not improve performance on new tasks. Use of active learning environments had no significant effect on performance of lower level learners in subsequent tasks. The performance of higher level learners, however, exceeded expectations from their measured entry competence. The students’ assessment of teaching quality negatively correlated with the proportion of active learning. The findings help inform how to achieve better learning outcomes at different maturity levels. In addition, the results reveal potentially important institutional obstacles to achieving these goals.en
dc.identifier.citationHeinemann JA, Goldstien S ‘Bums off seats’: measuring the effects of active learning in an undergraduate molecular biology curriculum. Journal of Biological Education. 1-12. Published online: 20 Apr 2020.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2020.1748687
dc.identifier.issn0021-9266
dc.identifier.issn2157-6009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/102517
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limiteden
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectactive learningen
dc.subjectstudent evolution of teachingen
dc.subjectteaching effectivenessen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::39 - Education::3902 - Education policy, sociology and philosophyen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::39 - Education::3904 - Specialist studies in education::390402 - Education assessment and evaluationen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::39 - Education::3903 - Education systems::390303 - Higher educationen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::31 - Biological sciencesen
dc.title‘Bums off seats’: measuring the effects of active learning in an undergraduate molecular biology curriculumen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Science
uc.departmentSchool of Biological Sciences
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