Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-20-2016
Abstract
Despite significant efforts to reform undergraduate science education, students often perform worse on assessments of perceptions of science after introductory courses, demonstrating a need for new educational interventions to reverse this trend. To address this need, we created An Inexplicable Disease, an engaging, active-learning case study that is unusual because it aims to simulate scientific inquiry by allowing students to iteratively investigate the Kuru epidemic of 1957 in a choose-your-own-experiment format in large lectures. The case emphasizes the importance of specialization and communication in science and is broadly applicable to courses of any size and sub-discipline of the life sciences.
Recommended Citation
Serrano, Antonio; Liebner, Jeffrey; and Hines, Justin K, "Cannibalism, Kuru, and Mad Cows: Prion Disease As a "Choose-Your-Own-Experiment" Case Study to Simulate Scientific Inquiry in Large Lectures." (2016). Department of Medicine Faculty Papers. Paper 152.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/medfp/152
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PubMed ID
26788803
Comments
This article has been peer reviewed. It was published in: PLoS Biology.
Volume 14, Issue 1, 20 January 2016, Article number e1002351.
The published version is available at DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002351
Copyright © 2016 Serrano et al.
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