Methods for investigating students’ learning and interaction with a haptic virtual biomolecular model

Höst, Gunnar E.,1976-Linköpings universitet,Visuell informationsteknologi och applikationer,Tekniska högskolan,Visual Learning and Communication (författare)

Although immersive haptic virtual technologies are emerging rapidly in modern education, few methods exist for delivering data on the pedagogical merits of such models in the molecular life sciences. This paper reports on a selection of methods that we have used to obtain and analyse data on students’ learning and interaction with a haptic virtual model of protein-ligand docking, previously designed by author PBP. The methods have been developed and employed during four consecutive years in which the model has been part of an advanced biomolecular interactions course. In this regard, we present data-collection methods that include written items, interviews, think-aloud tasks and automated time-stamped logs and, corresponding quantitative and qualitative analytical procedures such as pre/posttest statistical comparisons, word usage analysis and, visualised profiling of students’ interaction with the model. Our results suggest that these methods are useful for generating valuable information on students’ learning gain, changes in conceptual understanding, reasoning processes and patterns of interactivity with the model. Dissemination of such methods could provide an empirical contribution to the dearth of research instruments in this domain. Future research will develop these methodologies to explore the relationship between using the model and students’ conceptual and embodied learning.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Utbildningsvetenskap Didaktik hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Educational Sciences Didactics hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Biokemi och molekylärbiologi hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Biochemistry and Molecular Biology hsv//eng
Visualization
Haptics
Molecular life science
Methodology
Science education
Embodied learning
Cognitive load
TECHNOLOGY
TEKNIKVETENSKAP
Subject didactics
Ämnesdidaktik

Schönborn, Konrad J.,1977-Linköpings universitet,Visuell informationsteknologi och applikationer,Tekniska högskolan,Visual Learning and Communication(Swepub:liu)konsc16 (författare)
Bivall Persson, PetterLinköpings universitet,Visuell informationsteknologi och applikationer,Tekniska högskolan,Visual Learning and Communication(Swepub:liu)petpe18 (författare)
Tibell, Lena A.E.1952-Linköpings universitet,Visuell informationsteknologi och applikationer,Tekniska högskolan,Visual Learning and Communication(Swepub:liu)lenti27 (författare)
Linköpings universitetVisuell informationsteknologi och applikationer (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Contemporary Science Education Research: International PerspectivesAnkara : Pegem Akademi, s. 115-1219786053640318

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