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  • 标题:Using a "Primer Unit" in An IntroductoryBiology Course: "A Soft Landing"
  • 作者:Gili Marbach-Ad ; Melina Ribke ; Jonathan M. Gershoni
  • 期刊名称:Bioscene
  • 印刷版ISSN:1539-2422
  • 出版年度:2006
  • 卷号:32
  • 期号:02
  • 出版社:Association of College and University Biology Educators
  • 摘要:

    This study aimed to facilitate students’ entrance to an introductory cell biology course for biology majors.
    The most prominent difficulty in this introductory course, is students’ poor background-knowledge, such as a lack of
    understanding of very basic concepts and terms, and the huge differences in students’ background knowledge. In
    order to bring all the students to a common and adequate level of comprehension and familiarity of basic terms, thus
    giving a fair chance to all attending the introductory cell biology course, the chief instructor decided to build a
    “primer unit”. The unit provided an overview of the subject matter of the course, and it was placed on the course
    website before the beginning of the course. The findings show that students who consulted the primer unit came to
    the course better prepared. The primer helped to reduce the gap between students who studied advanced biology in
    high school and those who did not. Even though the differences between students who went over the primer and
    those who did not was not sustained after formal learning, students reported that due to the primer they started the
    course less intimidated and with a better idea about what to expect€

  • 关键词:Higher education; introductory course; cell biology; primer unit
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