Results of this study indicate that a plant biodiversity lab with extended hands-on exposure to lower-order foundational content, a reduction in the number of plant groups examined, a written post-lab experience emphasizing higher-order cognition, and multiple inquiry experiences in lab can improve conceptual understanding of evolution and evidence-based science reasoning.
This latter result is disappointing, but expected, based on our previous work indicating that both novice and advanced students lack the foundational content knowledge needed to answer evo-devo questions correctly (Hiatt et al., 2013).
We used examples of foundational content (e.g., cell division, Mendelian genetics, and natural selection) and concepts that instructors of the introductory biology series identified as especially challenging for students to learn (e.g., Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, phylogenetic relationships, and transcription).
Beginning with a still image and progressing to full sequences and theoretical texts, it asks students to write about film in multiple ways and to construct arguments about the relationship between form and content, foundational texts in gender studies, critical work on tomboys, and various extradiegetic aspects of film.
Each foundational concept is supported by a list of appropriate content topics, which we will not describe here.
This project demonstrates that core content for a foundational medical school course can be defined, created, and used by multiple medical schools without compromising student satisfaction or knowledge.
As a first step toward addressing this, five U.S. medical schools formed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Reimagining Medical Education collaborative to define, create, implement, and freely share core content for a foundational medical school course on microbiology and immunology.
Building links – getting other sites to link back to your content – is a foundational SEO strategy, and one of the best ways to improve your own site's backlinks is to check your competitor sites to see how they are building links.
First, we based our content on rigorous foundational studies (20 focus groups and systematic literature reviews), which required substantial time and effort to conduct.
Research suggests that patients want to be involved in care decisions [ 42], and patients' involvement in choosing treatment content is a foundational feature of HOPE.
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. has argued forcefully, if not entirely convincingly, that there is quite simply no canonical articulation or ordering of values in the secular, public square, and thus that there can be no foundational public bioethics based upon content-full conceptions of things like dignity, equality, or liberty (1996).
