Prior learning in biology at high school does not predict performance in the first year at university
Prior learning in biology at high school does not predict performance in the first year at university
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DOI：
10.1080/07294360.2010.539599
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Reid, Robert J.
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作者：
Bone, Elisa K.;Reid, Robert J.
大学一年级的学生面临着许多过渡问题，这些问题可能会使他们难以实现自己的学术潜力。在科学领域，第一年的课程涵盖了广泛的学科领域的大量材料，这可能会给没有背景知识的学生带来麻烦，学生需要适应典型的大班规模，并培养积极，独立的学习技能。我们预计学生的前期学习是重要的，他们的学业成绩在一个大的，第一年的介绍生物学科，并分析了学生的成绩在这门课程与他们的高中成绩在相关科目的三年，从2007年至2009年之间的关系。我们预测，有生物学背景的学生会比没有生物学背景的学生取得更好的成绩，但考虑到大部分课程内容的生物化学性质，化学也可能很重要。在高中阶段完成生物学的学生确实比那些没有完成的学生表现更好，但前提是他们也完成了化学。在生物学之前的学习是没有好处的学生在第一年的生物学，除了当与化学相结合，这表明高中和大学一年级之间的生物课程的潜在差异可能需要加以解决。
Students in their first year of university face a number of transition issues that can make realising their academic potential difficult. In the sciences, first-year courses cover a large amount of material across broad subject areas, which can make them troublesome for students without background knowledge, and students need to adapt to typically large class sizes and develop active, independent learning skills. We expected a student's prior learning to be important to their academic performance in a large, first-year introductory biology subject and analysed the relationships between students' results in this course with their senior high school results in related subjects over three years from 2007 to 2009. We predicted that students with prior learning in biology would have higher results than those without it, but that chemistry might also be important, given the biochemical nature of much of the course content. Students who completed biology at the senior high school-level did perform better than those who had not, but only if they also completed chemistry. Prior learning in biology was of no benefit to students in first-year biology, except when combined with chemistry, suggesting that potential differences in biology curricula between high school and the first year at university may need to be addressed.