| dc.contributor.author | Slominski, Tara | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prior to instruction, students may have developed alternative conceptions about the mechanics behind human physiology. To help students re-shape these ideas into correct reasoning, the faulty characteristics reinforcing the alternative conceptions need to made explicit. This study used student-generated drawings to expose alternative conceptions Human Anatomy and Physiology students had prior to instruction on neuron physiology. Specifically, we investigated how students thought about neuron communication across a synapse (n=355) and how neuron activity can be modified (n=311). When asked to depict basic communication between two neurons, at least 80% of students demonstrated incorrect ideas about synaptic transmission. When targeting spatial and temporal summation, only eleven students (3.5%) were able to accurately depict at least one form of summation. In response to both drawing questions, student drawings revealed multiple alternative conceptions that resulted in a deeper analysis and characterization of the wide variation of student ideas. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU Policy 190.6.2 | |
| dc.title | Drawing on Student Knowledge in Human Anatomy and Physiology | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-22T19:02:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-22T19:02:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27280 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | North Dakota State University. Department of Biological Sciences | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (NSF DUE-0833268) | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Science (MS) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Science and Mathematics | en_US |
| ndsu.department | Biological Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.program | Biological Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Montplaisir, Lisa M. | |
