Teaching Metabolism in Upper-Division Undergraduate Biochemistry Courses using Online Computational Systems and Dynamical Models Improves Student Performance.

ABSTRACT: Understanding metabolic function requires knowledge of the dynamics, interdependence, and regulation of metabolic networks. However, multiple professional societies have recognized that most undergraduate biochemistry students acquire only a surface-level understanding of metabolism. We hypothesized that guiding students through interactive computer simulations of metabolic systems would increase their ability to recognize how individual interactions between components affect the behavior of a system under different conditions. The computer simulations were designed with an interactive activity (i.e., module) that used the predict-observe-explain model of instruction to guide students through a process in which they iteratively predict outcomes, test their predictions, modify the interacti

SUBMITTER: Booth CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8108505 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature