Students "Tackle" Quantitative Literacy in their Science Communication with Real-World Football Activity.

ABSTRACT: Undergraduate introductory biology students struggle when communicating quantitative data. This activity provides students with a real-world research experience to improve their quantitative literacy in science communication. Students were provided with a national sports media report that described a professional football athlete requiring 9,000 calories daily. Students were then asked to determine whether, based on their own research and calculations, the reporter had correctly calculated the total calories coming from the reported foods. Students discovered that their different sources of caloric information provided very different (albeit accurate) calculated totals, ranging from 6,000 to 11,000 calories. Importantly, the students generated professional letters outlining their calculate

SUBMITTER: Adler JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5969394 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature