Human development, heredity and evolution

Nishinakamura, Ryuichi; Takasato, Minoru

doi:10.1242/dev.150565

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“…Molecular genetics connected evolution with multiple aspects of our lives and society with irrefutable facts (Nishinakamura & Takasato, 2017;Wang et al, 2014). However, the cross-disciplinary and multi-dimensional nature of cell-molecular biology is challenging for most high school students (Koba & Tweed, 2016;Cimer, 2012;Tibell & Rundgren, 2010;Sahdra & Thagard, 2003;Stewart, 1982).…”

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Learning High School Biology in a Social Context

Basu¹,

Aglira²,

Spotila³

2017

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In this research, we developed a process that helped students connect cell and molecular biology concepts with problems in context of their lives. Specifically, we supplemented traditional teaching with problem, project and inquiry based laboratories, without changing the structure of the mandated biology curriculum. We ran the process twice, following the classroom based action research model. Our initial foray exhibited better student-developed projects and a modest improvement of test grades. Second time we compared changes in problem solving skills, attitude toward reading, writing and problem solving and improvement of traditional test grades from the beginning and end of the school year. This process made the biological concepts so interesting that by the end of the year nearly all students significantly (t (55) = −8.95, p ≤ 0.05) improved problem-solving skills and some students went further to develop and solve independent inquiries. They also exhibited improved attitude towards reading, writing and problem solving. However, we didn't observe any causal relationship between improvement of problem solving skills and test grade, since its trend showed little difference between first and second trial.

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Learning High School Biology in a Social Context

Basu¹,

Aglira²,

Spotila³

2017

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“…For example, human embryonic brains have been sequenced at the single-cell level, and even time-lapse imaging after fluorescence labeling has been performed. 10 Of course, ethical issues need to be carefully addressed when dealing with human embryos, because just one case of careless handling could hamper the scientific progress of the entire research community. Because accessibility to human embryos varies from country to country, sharing of any obtained information on a unified platform is important and will also help to avoid redundant usage of human embryos.…”

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