{"id":284,"date":"2019-10-29T11:12:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/?p=284"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:12:58","slug":"small-changes-big-gains-a-curriculum-wide-study-of-teaching-practices-and-student-learning-in-undergraduate-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/2019\/10\/small-changes-big-gains-a-curriculum-wide-study-of-teaching-practices-and-student-learning-in-undergraduate-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Small changes, big gains: A curriculum-wide study of teaching practices and student learning in undergraduate biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What teaching practices most effectively promote student learning in UBC\u00a0undergraduate biology\u00a0courses?\u00a0This month\u2019s interesting read describes a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0220900\">large-scale study conducted at UBC<\/a> in which researchers observed classroom practices and assessed student learning in 31 biology courses (involving more than 3,700 students!). They found that\u00a0group work\u00a0was \u201cthe most significant positive predictor of learning gains\u201d, particularly when it included the use of worksheets.<\/p>\n<p>Weir LK, Barker MK, McDonnell LM, Schimpf NG, Rodela TM, Schulte PM. (2019) Small changes, big gains: A curriculum-wide study of teaching practices and student learning in undergraduate biology. PLOS ONE 14(8): e0220900. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0220900\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0220900<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, here is a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/science.ubc.ca\/news\/small-changes-big-gains-simple-worksheets-dramatically-boost-learning-stem-classes\">UBC press release<\/a>\u00a0about this study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What teaching practices most effectively promote student learning in UBC\u00a0undergraduate biology\u00a0courses?\u00a0This month\u2019s interesting read describes a\u00a0large-scale study conducted at UBC in which researchers observed classroom practices and assessed student learning in 31 biology courses (involving more than 3,700 students!). They found that\u00a0group work\u00a0was \u201cthe most significant positive predictor of learning gains\u201d, particularly when it included &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/2019\/10\/small-changes-big-gains-a-curriculum-wide-study-of-teaching-practices-and-student-learning-in-undergraduate-biology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Small changes, big gains: A curriculum-wide study of teaching practices and student learning in undergraduate biology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4534752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-reads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}