BTEC 24 - Introduction to PCR - Stage 5 - Ying-Tsu Loh
Assessment
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Assessment Description | As a way to allow the students to think about the experiments they were performing, reflections were collected at the end of each day. This allowed the students to stop and think about their experiments/techniques and ask questions. I was able to read the reflections very quickly and address any questions that may have arisen in the next class. |
Learning Outcomes | ALL |
Number of Sections | 1 |
Number of Instructors | 1 |
Number of Students | 31 |
Data Analysis
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Data Sharing Methods | Face-to-face meetings, classroom |
Data Summary | The overall avg of learning from the students was 8.9/10, 10 being highest in overall learning from this course. However, many of the students were frustrated with the large class size and the short length of the course. Working in groups of 3 were also not as successful (from observations). Will need to change this strategy to improve more hands on skills. |
Analysis Summary | For each outcome, a score of 4 out of 5 would achieve outcome. In this case, for each outcome, scores were between 4 to 5 with 4.67 being the highest for loading and running an agarose gel. |
Next Steps Planned | For the next step, allow groups of 2 to work together and start off with basics or techniques in pipeting, aliquoting, making, loading and running of gel (with no experimentation first). Allow each student to do 2 experiments in addition to the practice work. However, they will partner up to do the lab reports providing data results from their own experiments. |
Learning Outcomes | ALL |
Changes
Details | New activities were implemented due to the 1.5times increase in class size. The students worked in groups (could not do their own experiments) and shared in the process of writing lab reports. This change decreased student learning as some did not get the hands on practice they wanted. |
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Learning Outcomes | ALL |
Tentative Future Plans
Term | Fall 2013 |
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Activities |
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More Details | 1. Allow pairing of students (not in groups of 3). Allow each to do each experiment. 2. Allow mock experiment first - not doing a PCR experiment first thing but work on techniques. 3. Allow pairs to work on lab reports together, but providing the results of their own experiments to make one report. |
SLO Details Storage Location
ELECTRONIC COPY - In my electronic filing system (hard drive or web server)