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Background:

  • Analogies are common in STEM education for simplifying complex topics.
  • Typically, instructors generate analogies, limiting student engagement and skill development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if students creating extended analogies enhances content knowledge and critical thinking.
  • To compare the impact of individual versus collaborative analogy construction.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study with 30 college biology students.
  • Students constructed analogies on genetic information flow, first with familiar, then challenging items.
  • Analogy complexity and content knowledge were scored using a novel scheme.

Main Results:

  • Students showed moderate improvement with practice alone.
  • Significant gains in critical thinking were observed when students collaborated in pairs.
  • Collaborative analogy construction yielded greater improvements than individual work.

Conclusions:

  • Having students construct complex analogies in pairs is a high-impact educational practice.
  • Collaboration fosters critical thinking by requiring justification and critique of ideas.
  • This method is crucial for developing essential academic and professional skills.