The assessment of an educational  proposal to address the relationship  between genetic information and protein  synthesis

Esteve Guirao, Patricia; Baños González, Isabel; Valverde Pérez, Magdalena

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The assessment of an educational proposal to address the relationship between genetic information and protein synthesis

dc.contributor.author	Esteve Guirao, Patricia
dc.contributor.author	Baños González, Isabel
dc.contributor.author	Valverde Pérez, Magdalena
dc.contributor.department	Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-03T08:47:45Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-03T08:47:45Z
dc.date.copyright	© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature 141 Switzerland AG 2022.
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	This study assesses an educational intervention aimed at the enhancement of the learning of genetics related to the expression of genetic information and protein synthesis. For this purpose, a pretest and a posttest were completed by 43 students in the 10th grade, organized into an experimental and a control group. For the experimental group, an educational intervention was designed, addressing genetics in an observable and familiar context related to lactose intolerance. In the control group, these contents were addressed by means of more theoretical transmission of knowledge. Differences between the tests and groups were analyzed. In the pretest, the ideas in both groups were very similar, without statistically significant differences. In the posttest, both interventions seemed to be adequate for improving the students’ understanding of descriptive aspects, such as the location of genetic information. On the other hand, for those aspects which require greater systemic vision, to relate nutrition and protein synthesis, the experimental group obtained better results. Nevertheless, difficulties regarding the understanding of the transcription of DNA into RNA still remain, and their educational implications need to be discussed.
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89480-1_11
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-3-030-89480-1
dc.identifier.eissn	2662-2327
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-030-89479-5
dc.identifier.issn	2662-2319
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/198509
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad
dc.relation.ispartof	Current research in Biology education. Contributions from Biology education research. Cap. 11, pp. 141-154
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dc.subject.ods	Objetivo 4: Educación
dc.title	The assessment of an educational proposal to address the relationship between genetic information and protein synthesis
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