An instructional definition and assessment rubric for bioinformatics instruction
| Autor: | Dawn M. Simon, Garry A. Duncan, William Tapprich, Mark A. Pauley, Letitia M. Reichart, Neal Grandgenett, William McClung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Polymers
Bioinformatics Educational evaluation Biochemistry Field (computer science) Biological Science Disciplines 03 medical and health sciences ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Humans Molecular Biology Biology 030304 developmental biology Interdisciplinarity 0303 health sciences Iterative and incremental development 4. Education 05 social sciences 050301 education Rubric Computational Biology Living systems Educational research Coursework Curriculum 0503 education Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Biochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyREFERENCES. 49(1) |
| ISSN: | 1539-3429 |
| Popis: | The lack of an instructional definition of bioinformatics delays its effective integration into biology coursework. Using an iterative process, our team of biologists, a mathematician/computer scientist, and a bioinformatician together with an educational evaluation and assessment specialist, developed an instructional definition of the discipline: Bioinformatics is "an interdisciplinary field that is concerned with the development and application of algorithms that analyze biological data to investigate the structure and function of biological polymers and their relationships to living systems." The field is defined in terms of its two primary foundational disciplines, biology and computer science, and its interdisciplinary nature. At the same time, we also created a rubric for assessing open-ended responses to a prompt about what bioinformatics is and how it is used. The rubric has been shown to be reliable in successive rounds of testing using both common percent agreement (89.7%) and intraclass correlation coefficient (0.620) calculations. We offer the definition and rubric to life sciences instructors to help further integrate bioinformatics into biology instruction, as well as for fostering further educational research projects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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