提高学生对分子灵长类动物学父权分配的理解:在肯尼亚使用闪亮的Web应用程序进行试点研究
David K Mwaura1,2, Jordan A Anderson3, Daniel M Kiboi1
1Department of Biochemistry, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya.
American journal of primatology
|March 22, 2025
概括
这项研究表明,使用DadApp,一种用于父权推断的工具,显著提高了学生对分子灵长类学中的遗传亲属关系分析的理解. 互动应用程序提高了学习成果,并提高了学生对这个复杂学科的信心.
科学领域:
- 灵长类动物学 灵长类动物学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 教育技术的教育技术
背景情况:
- 亲属关系对于灵长类动物的社会行为至关重要,基因分析对于识别关系,尤其是父系关系至关重要.
- 遗传亲属分析的传统方法对学生来说是复杂的,阻碍了分子灵长类动物学的理解.
- 教育技术在科学中的整合,特别是在资源有限的环境中,仍然被低估了.
研究的目的:
- 评估R Shiny应用程序DadApp在提高学生对遗传亲属关系分析的理解方面的有效性.
- 评估使用DadApp在肯尼亚的一个分子灵长类动物学课程中积极学习方法的影响.
- 确定互动网络应用程序是否可以改善发展中国家复杂遗传概念的学习成果.
主要方法:
- 对28名参与者进行了一场关于遗传学和父权推断的入门讲座.
- 参与者完成了测试前和测试后的评估,以衡量知识获取.
- 学生通过结构化的练习与 DadApp 进行互动, DadApp 是用于推断父亲身份的图形用户界面.
主要成果:
- 与测试前的分数相比,测试后的分数显示了统计学上显著的改善 (p = 3.75 × 10−6).
- 学生对遗传亲属关系分析的兴趣和信心在使用 DadApp.App 后大幅增加.
- 该研究表明,通过积极参与教育应用程序,学习成果得到了增强.
结论:
- DadApp,一个闪亮的网络应用程序,有效地提高了学生对分子灵长类学中的遗传亲属关系分析的理解.
- 使用可访问技术的积极学习策略可以成功地教授复杂的科学概念,即使是在资源有限的教育环境中.
- 这种方法有望在全球推进分子灵长类学教育,特别是在技术有限的地区.
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