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Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: Private and social information in fish
A challenge in the Bachelor's studies in Biology is to strike a balance between reducing the teaching of practical scientific experiments to what is feasible in a short time, and teaching “real” science in undergraduate laboratories for high numbers of participants. We describe a laboratory in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6972818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31988712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5889 |
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description | A challenge in the Bachelor's studies in Biology is to strike a balance between reducing the teaching of practical scientific experiments to what is feasible in a short time, and teaching “real” science in undergraduate laboratories for high numbers of participants. We describe a laboratory in behavioral biology, with the primary focus on the student learning. However, also the underlying scientific question and the results of the experiment, namely the behavior of the three‐spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in a trade‐off situation during foraging, is without a doubt timely and sufficient for scientific studies on this subject, and this through the experiments conducted and data collected by the students. The students rated this laboratory well and learned at the end that social information is certainly important, but that self‐learning can be more important, and this not only in small fish, but also for the students themselves. |
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spelling | pubmed-69728182020-01-27 Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: Private and social information in fish Borcherding, Jost Webster, Mike M. Heubel, Katja Ecol Evol Academic Practice in Ecology and Evolution A challenge in the Bachelor's studies in Biology is to strike a balance between reducing the teaching of practical scientific experiments to what is feasible in a short time, and teaching “real” science in undergraduate laboratories for high numbers of participants. We describe a laboratory in behavioral biology, with the primary focus on the student learning. However, also the underlying scientific question and the results of the experiment, namely the behavior of the three‐spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in a trade‐off situation during foraging, is without a doubt timely and sufficient for scientific studies on this subject, and this through the experiments conducted and data collected by the students. The students rated this laboratory well and learned at the end that social information is certainly important, but that self‐learning can be more important, and this not only in small fish, but also for the students themselves. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6972818/ /pubmed/31988712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5889 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Academic Practice in Ecology and Evolution Borcherding, Jost Webster, Mike M. Heubel, Katja Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: Private and social information in fish |
title | Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: Private and social information in fish |
title_full | Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: Private and social information in fish |
title_fullStr | Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: Private and social information in fish |
title_full_unstemmed | Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: Private and social information in fish |
title_short | Teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: Private and social information in fish |
title_sort | teaching laboratory for large cohorts of undergraduates: private and social information in fish |
topic | Academic Practice in Ecology and Evolution |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6972818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31988712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5889 |
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