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Toward University Modeling Instruction—Biology: Adapting Curricular Frameworks from Physics to Biology

University Modeling Instruction (UMI) is an approach to curriculum and pedagogy that focuses instruction on engaging students in building, validating, and deploying scientific models. Modeling Instruction has been successfully implemented in both high school and university physics courses. Studies w...

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Autores principales: Manthey, Seth, Brewe, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Cell Biology 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3671648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23737628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.12-08-0136
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description University Modeling Instruction (UMI) is an approach to curriculum and pedagogy that focuses instruction on engaging students in building, validating, and deploying scientific models. Modeling Instruction has been successfully implemented in both high school and university physics courses. Studies within the physics education research (PER) community have identified UMI's positive impacts on learning gains, equity, attitudinal shifts, and self-efficacy. While the success of this pedagogical approach has been recognized within the physics community, the use of models and modeling practices is still being developed for biology. Drawing from the existing research on UMI in physics, we describe the theoretical foundations of UMI and how UMI can be adapted to include an emphasis on models and modeling for undergraduate introductory biology courses. In particular, we discuss our ongoing work to develop a framework for the first semester of a two-semester introductory biology course sequence by identifying the essential basic models for an introductory biology course sequence.
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spelling pubmed-36716482013-06-04 Toward University Modeling Instruction—Biology: Adapting Curricular Frameworks from Physics to Biology Manthey, Seth Brewe, Eric CBE Life Sci Educ Articles University Modeling Instruction (UMI) is an approach to curriculum and pedagogy that focuses instruction on engaging students in building, validating, and deploying scientific models. Modeling Instruction has been successfully implemented in both high school and university physics courses. Studies within the physics education research (PER) community have identified UMI's positive impacts on learning gains, equity, attitudinal shifts, and self-efficacy. While the success of this pedagogical approach has been recognized within the physics community, the use of models and modeling practices is still being developed for biology. Drawing from the existing research on UMI in physics, we describe the theoretical foundations of UMI and how UMI can be adapted to include an emphasis on models and modeling for undergraduate introductory biology courses. In particular, we discuss our ongoing work to develop a framework for the first semester of a two-semester introductory biology course sequence by identifying the essential basic models for an introductory biology course sequence. American Society for Cell Biology 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3671648/ /pubmed/23737628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.12-08-0136 Text en © 2013 S. Manthey and E. Brewe. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2013 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0). “ASCB®,” “The American Society for Cell Biology®,” and “Molecular Biology of the Cell®” are registered trademarks of The American Society of Cell Biology.
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