Place-Based Case Studies: A New Approach to an Effective Teaching Practice.

ABSTRACT: Case-based approaches have been used extensively in STEM classrooms to enhance the real-world applicability of course content. Prior research in the bioeducation field indicates, specifically, that such methods lead to increases in students' conceptual understanding and affect in the discipline relative to more traditional methods. Despite these outcomes, the majority of case study exercises are formatted in a generalist manner. In other words, the content and context of the case study itself are not framed around the communities in which the students live. In an effort to address this concern, we developed and implemented a series of place-based case study (PBCS) exercises within the introductory cell and molecular biology courses at our institutions. A comparative, quasi-experimental app

SUBMITTER: Fisher GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6508901 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature