Preparing for Class: Actions and Resources of Introductory Biology Students.

ABSTRACT: Instructors want students to be prepared for class. There are several different resources and activities available to help students prepare for class, but very little is known about how students choose to prepare for class in the context of undergraduate biology. In this study, we used content analysis to investigate what students do to prepare for an introductory biology course and if and how that preparation differed under two different conditions. Students were either directed to search out and choose their resources to prepare for class (choice treatment) or assigned specific pages from a textbook (text treatment). Students in the choice treatment reported preparing for class slightly more often than students in the text treatment, with both groups reporting that they prepared for over

SUBMITTER: Ballard TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8631313 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature