Annotated primary scientific literature: A pedagogical tool for undergraduate courses

Kararo, Matthew and McCartney, Melissa (2019) Annotated primary scientific literature: A pedagogical tool for undergraduate courses. PLOS Biology, 17 (1). e3000103. ISSN 1545-7885

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Abstract

Annotated primary scientific literature is a teaching and learning resource that provides scaffolding for undergraduate students acculturating to the authentic scientific practice of obtaining and evaluating information through the medium of primary scientific literature. Utilizing annotated primary scientific literature as an integrated pedagogical tool could enable more widespread use of primary scientific literature in undergraduate science classrooms with minimal disruption to existing syllabi. Research is ongoing to determine an optimal implementation protocol, with these preliminary iterations presented here serving as a first look at how students respond to annotated primary scientific literature. The undergraduate biology student participants in our study did not, in general, have an abundance of experience reading primary scientific literature; however, they found the annotations useful, especially for vocabulary and graph interpretation. We present here an implementation protocol for using annotated primary literature in the classroom that minimizes the use of valuable classroom time and requires no additional pedagogical training for instructors.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: AP Academic Press > Biological Science
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Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2023 10:10
Last Modified: 01 Jul 2024 08:29
URI: http://info.openarchivespress.com/id/eprint/40

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