This symposium will focus on teaching innovations and educational research related to the biochemistry lecture learning environment. The biochemistry classroom can provide students with the opportunity to grow and develop their understanding of the molecular life science concepts and practices. However, as many biochemistry educators can attest, this potential for student learning is not often fully realized. We invite those teaching lecture courses in all areas of biochemistry to share their work on topics such as, but not limited to, active learning, online education, and biochemical visualization. We encourage all symposium speakers to include some form of assessment such as results from surveys, exam questions, student interviews, or formal assessment instruments in their presentation.
Presider: Rodney Austin, Geneva College
Related Papers Introduction (9:30 am to 9:35 am)
P448: Identifying and refining threshold concepts for biochemistry (9:35 am to 9:55 am)
P449: Improving biochemistry students' understanding of enzyme-substrate interactions (9:55 am to 10:15 am)
P450: Assessment of the active learning biochemistry classroom (10:15 am to 10:35 am)
P451: Impact of semester conversion on assessing the development of critical thinking skills using student group presentations in biochemistry (10:35 am to 10:55 am)
Break (10:55 am to 11:10 am)
P452: What do biochemistry students learn from some common external representations of protein translation? (11:10 am to 11:30 am)
