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Direct linkMcDonnell, Lisa; Barker, Megan K.; Wieman, Carl – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
In this experiment, students in a large undergraduate biology course were first exposed to the concepts without new technical vocabulary ("jargon") in a pre-class reading assignment. Their learning of the concepts and jargon was compared with that of an equivalent group of students in another section of the same course, whose pre-class…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Jargon, Undergraduate Students, Biology
