Student Comments

Biology Through Inquiry

Student Comments

Before beginning and after completing our lessons on the cell cycle, we had the students take a 15 minute pre-assessment to test their prior knowledge and also to give a basis for comparison. We not only compared the test scores of this pre-test with a post-test for numerical data, but we will also compared the comfortably of the students with the topic before and after the lesson. Here are comments from 10 students about the test, before and after the lessons.

B = Before the lesson

A = After the lesson

Experimental Group

B: “It’s hard and confusing.” - Darrien McBride

A: “This time I knew certain questions that I didn’t know before. Just doing the project was a study guide to this test” - Darrien McBride

B: “I thought the test was hard and confusing because I didn’t know some of the stuff.

– Julia Smiley

A: “I understand the process and how everything works and I can tell you how everything happens in order, but I don’t know the names. I get confused on the names.”

- Julia Smiley

B: “I didn’t know anything about this test. It was very hard and I don’t think I got any correct.” – Ramyshla Bailey

A: “This quiz was not as hard as it was when we first took it” – Ramyshla Bailey

B: “I was kind of confused I think I know about this but I need to review it a lot to get the hang of it.” – Connor Hart

A: “After working around the cell cycle for a few days, it made this test easier for me”

– Connor Hart

B: “Some stuff in the test I didn’t even know about them or heard of them before in my life.

- Aurelio Xhepaj

A: “After doing the project, I feel like I know more about mitosis and meiosis. So I feel like I did better on this test” - Aurelio Xhepaj

Control Group

B: “I personally think that the test was hard mainly because of the fact that I’ve never heard of 95% of the stuff on the test. If I learned it before I took the test I think I would have done better.”

- Elijah White

A: No comment - Elijah White

B: “I believe the test was a waste because nobody really knew any of this. The test really wasn’t a waste but nobody knew what was going on so we all failed. I think it would have been best to tell us at least what half of this stuff is, because most of us didn’t know.”

- Diamonds Whaley

A: I believe the test was easier, but there was no time to study. Next time we should be given time to study.

– Diamonds Whaley

B: “I really didn’t know any of these questions. I just guessed on all of them. They were really difficult and hard.” - Lucreatia Russell

A: “This quiz was really boring. I knew some of the questions but others I was really confused. Hope they’re right.” - Lucreatia Russell

B: “This test was very hard. I learned all of these things last year but I forgot.” - Tony Cephas Jr.

A: It was a little easier now that I know some of the questions on the test.” – Tony Cephas Jr.

B: “Although the test was hard, I thought it was very confusing. There are many words to learn and many phrases to know.”

- Emmanuel Nieves

A: I thought this quiz was very easy, but there were some things that I should of looker over and studied.

– Emmanuel Nieves

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