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Bioinformatics Projects Supporting Life-Sciences Learning in High Schools

The interdisciplinary nature of bioinformatics makes it an ideal framework to develop activities enabling enquiry-based learning. We describe here the development and implementation of a pilot project to use bioinformatics-based research activities in high schools, called “Bioinformatics@school.” It...

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Autores principales: Marques, Isabel, Almeida, Paulo, Alves, Renato, Dias, Maria João, Godinho, Ana, Pereira-Leal, José B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003404
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author Marques, Isabel
Almeida, Paulo
Alves, Renato
Dias, Maria João
Godinho, Ana
Pereira-Leal, José B.
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description The interdisciplinary nature of bioinformatics makes it an ideal framework to develop activities enabling enquiry-based learning. We describe here the development and implementation of a pilot project to use bioinformatics-based research activities in high schools, called “Bioinformatics@school.” It includes web-based research projects that students can pursue alone or under teacher supervision and a teacher training program. The project is organized so as to enable discussion of key results between students and teachers. After successful trials in two high schools, as measured by questionnaires, interviews, and assessment of knowledge acquisition, the project is expanding by the action of the teachers involved, who are helping us develop more content and are recruiting more teachers and schools.
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spelling pubmed-39003772014-01-24 Bioinformatics Projects Supporting Life-Sciences Learning in High Schools Marques, Isabel Almeida, Paulo Alves, Renato Dias, Maria João Godinho, Ana Pereira-Leal, José B. PLoS Comput Biol Education The interdisciplinary nature of bioinformatics makes it an ideal framework to develop activities enabling enquiry-based learning. We describe here the development and implementation of a pilot project to use bioinformatics-based research activities in high schools, called “Bioinformatics@school.” It includes web-based research projects that students can pursue alone or under teacher supervision and a teacher training program. The project is organized so as to enable discussion of key results between students and teachers. After successful trials in two high schools, as measured by questionnaires, interviews, and assessment of knowledge acquisition, the project is expanding by the action of the teachers involved, who are helping us develop more content and are recruiting more teachers and schools. Public Library of Science 2014-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3900377/ /pubmed/24465192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003404 Text en This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900377/
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