Seeing the unseen: Comparison study of representation approaches for biochemical processes in education

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Authors

POKOJNÁ Hana KOZLÍKOVÁ Barbora BERRY Drew KRIGLSTEIN Simone FURMANOVÁ Katarína

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source PLoS ONE
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Web https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293592
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293592
Keywords Biochemical processes;abstraction;education;comparative study
Description The representations of biochemical processes must balance visual portrayals with descriptive content to be an effective learning tool. To determine what type of representation is the most suitable for education, we designed five different representations of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis and examined how they are perceived. Our representations consisted of an overview of the process in a detailed and abstract illustrative format, continuous video formats with and without narration, and a combined illustrative overview with dynamic components. The five representations were evaluated by non-experts who were randomly assigned one of them and experts who viewed and compared all five representations. Subsequently, we conducted a focus group on the outcomes of these evaluations, which gave insight into possible explanations of our results, where the non-experts preferred the detailed static representation and found the narrated video least helpful, in contradiction to the experts who favored the narrated video the most.
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