Puig showed signs of understanding.
Failure of understanding.
(2009) found that HPI precourse scores in upper-level courses demonstrated retention of conceptual understanding emphasized in a lower-level microbiology course.
Given the importance of first-year coursework to student retention, understanding the impact of contingent instructors on student learning is critical (Benjamin, 2002; Jaeger, 2008).
Long-term retention of knowledge and understanding of the topics discussed in the tutorials was measured and student response to the introduction of the electronic voting system was assessed.
We expected that repeated exposure to phylogenetic concepts through increasingly difficult practice within an upper-level plant biology course would be effective for developing retention of knowledge, deep understanding of problems, and transfer of skills (Ericsson et al., 1993; NRC, 2000; Billing, 2007; Larsen et al., 2009; Chi and VanLehn, 2012).
At first glance, the most pressing teaching dilemmas in our biology classrooms student motivation, student retention of information, student understanding of difficult concepts may seem unrelated to the order in which things are happening; however, what we do first, second, third, and so on can have many ramifications.
Self-directed learning has been shown to be associated with increased curiosity, critical thinking, quality of understanding, retention and recall, better decision making, achievement satisfaction, motivation, competence and confidence [ 2- 5].
