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Student Profiles
Beat Adrian Schwendimann
bschwendimann at berkeley.eduProgram: Graduate Group in Science & Math Education (SESAME)
Objective: PhD
Entered: Fall 2006
Advisor: Linn/WhiteIam a doctoral student in the SESAME program. I am interested in how different learning activities in technology-enhanced curricula support students' integration of biological concepts.I am particularly interested in students' learning of the genetic basis of evolution. Students come into the classroom with many alternative ideas about evolution - often disconnected from the underlying genetic principles. Biology is often presented in schools as a collection of isolated subfields. As a result, many students fail to make the connections between ideas of different levels (e.g. from genotype level to phenotype level) and across different subfields (e.g. from genetics to evolution).
Through the use of visualizations (e.g. guided computer-based inquiry simulations), students can explore the otherwise invisible connections between micro- and macro-level phenomena. My research focuses on how different kinds of concept mapping activities help students make connections between these different levels and build a more coherent understanding of evolution concepts.
I developed a WISE curriculum about genetic diversity that aims to support students to understand genetics as the basis of evolutionary processes
Degrees
return to topResearch Interests and Projects
I developed a WISE (wise.berkeley.edu) module on evolution. Students (high school 9th and 10th grade) learn about the genetic basis of evolution in a case study about human lactose intolerance.
return to topPresentations and Publications
Talk at Symposium "Critique to Learn Science" at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) in Garden Grove, CA, 2009.Poster presentation at Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA) in San Diego, CA, 2009. Title: Scaffolding an Integrated Understanding of Biology through Dynamic Visualizations and Critique-focused Concept Mapping
Poster presentation at Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA) in New York, 2008. Title: Scaffolding an interactive dynamic model to promote coherent connections in high school biology
return to topThesis
Prospectus title: Mapping biological ideas: Integrating genotypic and phenotypic ideas of evolution through structured concept mapping
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