A Qualitative Description of Biochemistry Students’ Visuospatial Reasoning Difficulties Associated with Amino Acid Models

Q3 Social Sciences
L. Mnguni
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Abstract

The adoption of multimedia learning tools, including visual models in biochemistry, has increased considerably over the last few decades. Adopting these tools necessitates the development of visual literacy competencies, such as visuospatial reasoning, for students to learn effectively. The extent to which biochemistry students have the necessary visuospatial reasoning skills to learn from visual models effectively is a subject of continuing research. The current qualitative research sought to describe biochemistry students’ visuospatial reasoning difficulties associated with amino acids. Seven purposively selected students were interviewed using a semi-structured protocol to solicit their learning difficulties when asked to perform specific tasks related to visuospatial reasoning. The research question explored in this study is: “What are biochemistry students’ visuospatial reasoning difficulties associated with amino acids models?” Learning difficulties related to perceiving spatial orientation, mental rotation, interpreting colour codes, and generating a visual model depicting spatial depth were identified. Identifying and describing these learning difficulties could help teachers adopt remediation strategies to enhance content understanding. The researcher concludes that students may not always have the visuospatial reasoning skills required for successful learning in biochemistry. Given the complex nature of visual literacy, the researcher recommends explicit remediation strategies to address learning difficulties associated with visuospatial reasoning in biochemistry.
定性描述生物化学学生与氨基酸模型相关的视觉空间推理困难
在过去的几十年里,多媒体学习工具(包括生物化学中的可视化模型)的应用大幅增加。采用这些工具需要培养学生的视觉素养能力,如视觉空间推理能力,以便有效学习。生物化学专业的学生在多大程度上具备必要的视觉空间推理能力,以有效地从视觉模型中学习,是一个持续研究的课题。目前的定性研究试图描述生物化学学生与氨基酸相关的视觉空间推理困难。我们采用半结构化协议,有目的性地挑选了七名学生进行访谈,以了解他们在被要求完成与视觉空间推理相关的特定任务时遇到的学习困难。本研究探讨的问题是"与氨基酸模型相关的生物化学学生的视觉空间推理困难是什么?研究发现了与感知空间方位、心智旋转、解释颜色代码和生成描述空间深度的视觉模型有关的学习困难。识别和描述这些学习困难有助于教师采取补救策略,加强对内容的理解。研究人员的结论是,学生可能并不总是具备成功学习生物化学所需的视觉空间推理技能。鉴于视觉素养的复杂性,研究人员建议采取明确的补救策略,以解决与生物化学视觉空间推理相关的学习困难。
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