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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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ACS New Orleans, 10 April 2013, #ACSNola
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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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egonw.github.com