Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics

This paper describes the development and benefits of an adaptive digital module on cell growth to tackle the problem of educating a heterogeneous group of students at the beginning of an undergraduate course on process engineering. Aim of the digital module is to provide students with the minimal le...

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Autores principales:	Seters,Janneke van, Ossevoort,Miriam, Goedhart,Martin, Tramper,Johannes
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 2011
Materias:	adaptive digital learning material bioreactor design biotechnology education intelligent tutoring system intelligent Web-based educational system
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-345820110002000012011-05-26Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kineticsSeters,Janneke vanOssevoort,MiriamGoedhart,MartinTramper,Johannes adaptive digital learning material bioreactor design biotechnology education intelligent tutoring system intelligent Web-based educational system This paper describes the development and benefits of an adaptive digital module on cell growth to tackle the problem of educating a heterogeneous group of students at the beginning of an undergraduate course on process engineering. Aim of the digital module is to provide students with the minimal level of knowledge on cell growth kinetics they need to comprehend the content knowledge of the subsequent lectures and pass the exam. The module was organised to offer the subject matter in a differentiated manner, so that students could follow different learning paths. Two student groups were investigated, one consisting of students who had received their prior education abroad and one of students that had not. Exam scores, questionnaires, and logged user data of the two student groups were analysed to discover whether the digital module had the intended effect. The results indicate that students did indeed follow different learning paths. Also, the differences in exam scores between the two student groups that was present before the introduction of the digital module was found to have decreased afterwards. In general, students appreciated the use of the material regardless of their prior education. We therefore conclude that the use of adaptive digital learning material is a possible way to solve the problem of differences in prior education of students entering a course.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoElectronic Journal of Biotechnology v.14 n.2 20112011-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582011000200001en
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spellingShingle	adaptive digital learning material bioreactor design biotechnology education intelligent tutoring system intelligent Web-based educational system Seters,Janneke van Ossevoort,Miriam Goedhart,Martin Tramper,Johannes Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics
description	This paper describes the development and benefits of an adaptive digital module on cell growth to tackle the problem of educating a heterogeneous group of students at the beginning of an undergraduate course on process engineering. Aim of the digital module is to provide students with the minimal level of knowledge on cell growth kinetics they need to comprehend the content knowledge of the subsequent lectures and pass the exam. The module was organised to offer the subject matter in a differentiated manner, so that students could follow different learning paths. Two student groups were investigated, one consisting of students who had received their prior education abroad and one of students that had not. Exam scores, questionnaires, and logged user data of the two student groups were analysed to discover whether the digital module had the intended effect. The results indicate that students did indeed follow different learning paths. Also, the differences in exam scores between the two student groups that was present before the introduction of the digital module was found to have decreased afterwards. In general, students appreciated the use of the material regardless of their prior education. We therefore conclude that the use of adaptive digital learning material is a possible way to solve the problem of differences in prior education of students entering a course.
author	Seters,Janneke van Ossevoort,Miriam Goedhart,Martin Tramper,Johannes
author_facet	Seters,Janneke van Ossevoort,Miriam Goedhart,Martin Tramper,Johannes
author_sort	Seters,Janneke van
title	Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics
title_short	Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics
title_full	Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics
title_fullStr	Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics
title_full_unstemmed	Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics
title_sort	accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
publishDate	2011
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582011000200001
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Accommodating the difference in students' prior knowledge of cell growth kinetics

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