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Improving Student Outcomes with an Adaptable Molecular Cloning Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
Published on: November 15, 2024
[A probe to the Empowerment and Efficiency Oriented teaching reform of molecular biology experiment]
Xiao Zhang1, Xianchun Yan1, Rui Zhang2
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China.
Abstract:
Molecular biology theory and technology, as a frontier subject of life sciences, are developing rapidly. As the key link between theory and practice, molecular biology experimental courses play an important role in the cultivation of students' critical thinking and innovation abilities. This paper analyzed the critical issues in experimental teaching by collecting and reflecting on students' feedbacks. With a focus on the Empowerment and Efficiency Oriented Teaching, the study was aimed at improving students' hands-on and thinking ability, and raising the efficacy of education. A series of measures were taken in attempts to renew the setting of teaching content and reconstruct the classroom timing allotment. The reform of the teaching scheme not only significantly increases students' understanding and mastery of knowledge, and empowers students with stronger thinking and learning abilities, but also enhances the teaching efficacy of experimental courses and further improves students' scientific literacy.

