Sentence examples for construction exercise from inspiring English sources
You're treating strategic option generation as a construction exercise — I am going to build an option, and it has a bunch of pieces to assemble, all of which have to fix logically together in an airtight way.
The second phylogenetic tree construction exercise (Additional file 1: Figures S1 S2) was placed on the individual section of the comprehensive final exam.
The first phylogenetic tree construction exercise (Fig. 1) appeared on the group component of the evolution unit exam during the sixth week of class.
The third phylogenetic tree construction exercise (Additional file 1: Figure S3) was created by merging both versions of the construction prompt from the individual component of the final exam into a larger and more challenging task for the group component of the final exam.
Overall, descriptions of student-constructed phylogenetic trees are fragmented, and the impact of construction exercises on student learning is unresolved.
Thus, the effects of construction exercises on student learning remain uncertain.
The resulting phylogenetic tree does not contain unresolved nodes, but unlike the earlier construction exercises, convergent evolution is present.
Some of the most common instructional activities concerning phylogenetic trees are construction exercises, in which students build phylogenetic trees from provided or self-generated data.
The impact of phylogenetic tree construction exercises on student learning is uncertain based on the literature, and one factor contributing to this uncertainty could be our fragmented knowledge of what students construct during the tasks.
The goal of this study was to develop a more robust method for describing phylogenetic trees generated by students, which will support future research that attempts to link construction exercises with student learning.
Our new assignments did engage students in between-tree comparisons to some extent, as the tree construction exercises of the final three assignments were intentionally designed to have multiple most-parsimonious answers.
