On the practice of cultivating scientific thinking in the teaching of Gene Engineering curriculum / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Gene Engineering is a compulsory course for students majoring in biotechniques. Therefore, we have made innovative reforms to strengthen the "scientific thinking" elements in the course in all aspects of the course, such as content design, teaching strategies, inspection and evaluation methods on the teaching. Briefly, the contents are designed to reflect the scientific rules and thinking manners, and milestone findings and stories are mined thoroughly. During the teaching process, students are inspired and enlightened based on the history by scene reappearance to form the scientifc thinking. During the evaluation process, students are advocated to share their stories in gene engineering field and the underlying scientific thinking manners are taken into the assessment. With the teaching reform in the Gene Engineering course, the "scientific thinking" ability of the students has been significantly improved.