An Asynchronous Chemistry-in-biology Intervention Improves Student Content Knowledge and Performance in Introductory Biology.

ABSTRACT: Introductory biology is a gateway course for majors and other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Despite the importance of chemistry content knowledge for understanding biology, the relationship between chemistry knowledge and prior coursework and biology course performance is understudied. We used an opportunity gap framework to investigate the extent to which there were opportunity gaps in prior chemistry coursework and knowledge and associated these gaps with subsequent equity gaps in student performance on introductory biology assessments. We also developed, implemented, and assessed an asynchronous content-based intervention to support student learning and reduce equity gaps. We collected data from ∼1800 students enrolled in seven course sections of

SUBMITTER: Meaders CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11974528 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature