Assessment of molecular construction in undergraduate biochemistry

摘要: Undergraduate students in nine classes at eastern and southeastern universities the U.S. were evaluated regarding their attitudes towards use of molecular visualization biochemistry lecture courses. All used same software (Kinemage) homework. Approximately two-thirds these students, treatment group, constructed or "authored" a series annotated images macromolecular topic, usually protein complex family. Both quantitative qualitative analysis revealed that student authors felt they learned more than control group constructing was an effective learning tool. Perceived difficulties included time commitment challenge unfamiliar software. In addition to attitudinal assessment, graphics-based performance assessment one class (which had both students) showed no significant difference betwee...