Teaching students to read the primary literature using pogil activities

Murray, Tracey Arnold

doi:10.1002/bmb.20765

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“…Other teaching strategies to promote student understanding of primary literature developed in recent years include the use of templates (“Figure Facts”) to encourage students to focus on the results presented in each figure of a publication, the C.R.E.A.T.E. approach, which encourages students to Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, and Think of the next Experiment or POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning), which involves group‐based learning in self‐managed collaborative teams . Our topic‐ and student‐centered approach is easily compatible with any of these strategies.…”

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A new twist on the graduate student journal club: Using a topic‐centered approach to promote student engagement

Bimczok

Graves

2020

Biochem Molecular Bio Educ

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Journal clubs are widely used as an educational tool in graduate life science programs. In journal clubs, students are assigned to read specific journal articles to achieve a broad knowledge in their field of study and to gain competence in reading and assessing scientific publications. However, students often show low motivation to read assigned articles, and under-prepared students contribute little to in-class discussions. In order to promote student engagement in graduate-level journal clubs, we used an inverted, student-centered format that focuses on a scientific question or topic rather than specific publications. Both the weekly topics and the scientific publications were selected by the students and focused on aspects of the students' thesis research. For each weekly topic, students were asked to find papers, read the papers and summarize the findings during class, which led to the presentation of a variety of approaches and viewpoints. This approach trained students in literature search, focused reading and oral presentation skills and provided a broad overview of the research in the selected topic areas. Student feedback showed a high level of acceptance of the new format. We propose this inverted journal club format as a useful alternative to traditional formats, because it focuses on a different scientific skill set and leads to increased student engagement through its student-centered approach. K E Y W O R D Sgraduate curriculum, primary literature, student-centered

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A new twist on the graduate student journal club: Using a topic‐centered approach to promote student engagement

Bimczok

Graves

2020

Biochem Molecular Bio Educ

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“…Yet, elsewhere in the world, science teachers and educators have successfully designed different approaches to include research paper reading in undergraduate courses . One of the most serious efforts in this connection that we have come across is “CREATE.” In this approach, students read four consecutive publications (from the same biology research laboratory) over the course of a semester .…”

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“…One of the most serious efforts in this connection that we have come across is “CREATE.” In this approach, students read four consecutive publications (from the same biology research laboratory) over the course of a semester . Another approach called Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) has been found to be adaptable for research paper reading . Yet another approach consists of designing questions specific to a research paper, and grading the students based on their written answers .…”

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A module integrating conventional teaching and student‐centered approach for critical reading of scientific literature

Kulkarni

Vartak

2019

Biochem Molecular Bio Educ

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One of the well-accepted ways of introducing undergraduates to the method of scientific inquiry is to introduce them to primary literature. A matter of concern is that undergraduate students of Indian universities are generally not trained to read primary literature. We combined traditional teaching and student-centered approach in a 3-day module for introducing first-year students to critical reading of primary literature. This article describes the design of the module, the method of assessment of student performance, the learning outcomes, and student feedback. We received positive feedback from students and observed significant improvement in their understanding of the rationale and results of the research paper under consideration. The module may be viewed as an example of a simple introductory activity to enthuse and initiate college students to scientific thinking and research paper reading.

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“…Due to these new academic requirements these students are suddenly forced to experience an additional transition, that is, an English academic reading transition from "learning to read" English to "reading to learn" from a range of academic genres (Grabe & Stoller, 2013). Academic and professional genres such as research articles, authentic technical manuals and reports seem to pose significant challenges to undergraduate students across engineering, medical and science disciplines (Bitran et al, 2012;Murray, 2014;Seiradakis & Spantidakis, 2018a;Shen, 2013).…”

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First-Year Students’ EFL Reading Difficulties at a Greek Merchant Marine Academy: An Activity Theory Perspective

Seiradakis¹

2019

IJEL

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This paper explores how the transition from secondary to tertiary education influences Greek marine engineering students’ EFL reading behaviors and strategies from an activity-theory perspective. Data were gathered through individual semi-structured interviews with four first-year students who struggled with reading texts in English. Findings suggest that these students experience difficulties in reading lengthy discipline-specific texts such as technical manuals due to the fact they still use the same EFL reading strategies and have the same expectations they had before entering tertiary education. From an activity theory perspective, these students’ difficulties are associated with two distinct EFL reading activity systems which have diverse goals, tools, values, and division of labour. The first system is placed within the wider Greek foreign language education context these students belonged in high school. The second, involves the system that emerged after they entered the Merchant Marine Academy as tertiary education students. These two EFL reading systems clash and create obstacles in their discipline-specific reading which in turn slows down their disciplinary socialization in the marine engineering community.

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Teaching students to read the primary literature using pogil activities

Cited by 45 publications

References 19 publications

A new twist on the graduate student journal club: Using a topic‐centered approach to promote student engagement

A new twist on the graduate student journal club: Using a topic‐centered approach to promote student engagement

A module integrating conventional teaching and student‐centered approach for critical reading of scientific literature

First-Year Students’ EFL Reading Difficulties at a Greek Merchant Marine Academy: An Activity Theory Perspective

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