Curriculum Alignment with Vision and Change Improves Student Scientific Literacy.

ABSTRACT: The Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education final report challenged institutions to reform their biology courses to focus on process skills and student active learning, among other recommendations. A large southeastern university implemented curricular changes to its majors' introductory biology sequence in alignment with these recommendations. Discussion sections focused on developing student process skills were added to both lectures and a lab, and one semester of lab was removed. This curriculum was implemented using active-learning techniques paired with student collaboration. This study determined whether these changes resulted in a higher gain of student scientific literacy by conducting pre/posttesting of scientific literacy for two cohorts: students experiencing

SUBMITTER: Auerbach AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5459247 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature