Correlating time spent on exercises with exam results in Protein Structure education

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Correlating time spent onexercises with exam results inProtein Structure education

Egon Willighagen, @egonwillighagenDept. of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT - Maastricht University

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Disclaimer

• I am an interested scientist...–Basic Teaching Qualification–… with interest in getting students

smarter

• The data is not ready yet :(

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Context of this study

• To learn about the variation within the student population–By recording what they do

• To increase the internal motivation by encouraging to their interest–By allowing them to go beyond the

learning goals

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A uniform student population?

Source: WikiPedia

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But what about bimodal? Or ...

Source: WikiPedia

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Cognitive Load

1. Learning goals– “Intrinsic cognitive load”

2. Learning the tools– “Extraneous cognitive load”

J. Leppink et al. Behavior ResearchMethods, 2013, p1-15

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Teaching Protein Structure

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Needs

• Visualisation• Interactive• Records

→ Bioclipse … JavaScript … yeah, sure does!

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Integration platform: Bioclipse

Spjuth, O et al. BMC bioinformatics 2007 8(1):59.

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Hanson, RM. Appl Cryst 2010 43(5):1250-1260.

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JavaScripting (...)

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“Cheat sheets”

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Recording & Reporting

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Results

• Teaching material in a versatile environment

• It can record and report progress of the student (e.g. to a central server)

• The timing results give us a multivariate view on the student population

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Acknowledgements

• Uppsala University–Ola Spjuth, Jonathan

Alvarsson, Arvid Berg

• Jmol–Bob Hanson, Nicolas

Vervelle, Angel Herraez

• http://bioclipse.net• http://jmol.org

@egonwillighagen

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