一个生物信息学驱动的CURE扩展增加了学生的自我效能和对生物医学研究的兴趣
Héctor G Loyola Irizarry1,2, Hiram Duarte1, Kyoko Nakamura1
1Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
Journal of microbiology & biology education
|April 10, 2025
概括
本研究介绍了CURE+,这是一个基于课程的密集本科研究经验 (CURE) 扩展. CURE+显著提高了学生的自我效能和对生物信息学和生物医学研究的兴趣,为传统研究机会提供了有价值的替代方案.
科学领域:
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 计算生物学 计算生物学
- 本科教育 学士教育
背景情况:
- 生物学工作人员需要生物信息学培训,但它并没有被普遍纳入本科课程.
- 持续需要加强本科生获得真实的研究经验的机会.
- 现有的以课程为基础的本科研究经验 (CUREs) 是有前途的,但可能无法完全复制独立研究.
研究的目的:
- 评估CURE+对学生学习和参与的影响,CURE+是生物信息学CURE的一个学期的延期.
- 评估CURE+是否有效地弥合了大学生研究机会 (UREs) 的差距,这些机构的学生与教师比例很高.
- 测量学生自我效能,对生物信息学和研究的兴趣以及对他们的项目的情感联系的变化.
主要方法:
- 实施CURE+与个人,生物信息学驱动的研究项目,包括职业发展和指导.
- 通过经验前和后的测量,评估学生在生物信息学和研究技能的自我有效性.
- 评估学生对生物信息学和生物医学研究的兴趣,与项目相关的情绪,以及对学习成果的掌握.
主要成果:
- 在各种生物信息学和研究技能中观察到学生自我效能的显著增加.
- 学生对生物信息学活动和生物医学研究的兴趣显著增加.
- 学生们对他们的项目表示积极的情绪,大多数人都掌握了定义的学习成果.
结论:
- 一个密集的CURE扩展,像CURE+,可以为本科生提供一个变革性的研究经验.
- CURE+有效地解决了对传统本科生研究经验 (UREs) 的有限访问问题.
- 该模型提供了一个可扩展的解决方案,以提高生物信息学培训和生物学本科生的研究技能发展.
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