Increasing Visual Literacy in Undergraduate Biochemistry
Join Cassidy Terrell from the University of Minnesota Rochester to explore methods for increasing students’ visual literacy skills in biochemistry.
Cassidy Terrell, University of Minnesota, Rochester
This session explores methods to increase students’ visual literacy skills in biochemistry, which in turn could increase student conceptual knowledge and decrease misconceptions. We’ll explore documented misconceptions held by students across the STEM disciplines, as well as the variety of representations used in biochemistry and the techniques used to render these representations.
About our speaker
Cassidy Terrell
Cassidy Terrell is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Rochester. Her long-term goal is to develop and assess curriculum related to biomolecular interaction and visual literacy with the goal of creating and disseminating data-driven research on learning that positively impacts students in chemistry and biochemistry. Dr. Terrell’s work has focused on the design of 3D physical and virtual evidence-based models to increase student conceptual understanding in biochemistry. Recently, she and a team of undergraduate researchers designed a series of 3D physical models that target the identified misconceptions in the ESICI developed by Bretz & Linenberger (2012). (Linenberger & Bretz 2014, 2015). Additionally, she collaborates with researchers at Kennesaw State University, Kimberly Cortes and Adrian Randolph, to determine how and when students learn using 3D physical and virtual model using EEG and eye tracking technologies.
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