Design and Implementation of a Tool to Assess Students' Understanding of Metabolic Pathways Dynamics and Regulation

Autor/inn/en	Villafañe, Sachel M.; Minderhout, Vicky; Heyen, Bruce J.; Lewis, Jennifer E.; Manley, Andrew; Murray, Tracey A.; Tienson-Tseng, Heather; Loertscher, Jennifer
Titel	Design and Implementation of a Tool to Assess Students' Understanding of Metabolic Pathways Dynamics and Regulation
Quelle	In: CBE - Life Sciences Education, 20 (2021) 3, Artikel 35 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1931-7913
Schlagwörter	Metabolism; Science Tests; Undergraduate Students; Biochemistry; Test Construction; College Science; Student Evaluation; Scoring Rubrics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stoffwechsel; Biochemie; Testaufbau; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Scoring formulas; Auswertungsbogen
Abstract	Metabolic systems form the very foundation of life and as such are broadly taught in the molecular life sciences. Here, we describe the biochemistry educator community-based development and use of an assessment instrument designed to evaluate students' ideas about metabolic pathway dynamics and regulation in undergraduate biochemistry courses. Analysis of student responses showed that most students were able to interpret visual representations in an unfamiliar metabolic pathway and that many could make basic predictions about how the system would be expected to respond to changes. However, fewer students generated nuanced responses that accounted for both microscopic changes at the protein level and macroscopic changes in pathway product outputs. These findings identify some of the challenges of meaningfully assessing students' understanding of metabolic pathways and could inform how instructors think about teaching and assessing metabolism in undergraduate biochemistry and beyond. The results also suggest future avenues for biochemistry education research. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01