Data analysis and prospects of the national college students' life science competition / 生物工程学报

The Chinese national college students' life science competition has been held for three times, with good organization, large scale and high participation degree. The competition plays an important role in promoting life science education and research. This paper reports the form and status of the competition, statistically analyses the registration data and competition results by region and year, based on the previous three competitions. By combining new changes and understanding in the field of life science, we also indicate prospects on how to better promote the competition.

Development of international genetically engineered machine competition in China / 生物工程学报

Synthetic biology is a fast moving interdisciplinary branch of biology and engineering. To educate the next generation of synthetic biology scientists, the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition was established. In the past eleven years, many Chinese teams have participated in this event, but no thorough review and analysis have been carried out. In this paper, we collected the data and information of the Chinese teams from the iGEM website and analyzed the number, distribution and performance of Chinese teams in iGEM competition. We also described contributions made by the Conference of China iGEMer Community (CCiC) organization. The contributions to China higher education made by the iGEM competition were also summarized. Finally, we proposed several suggestions for the development of the iGEM competition in China. We envision the iGEM competition will continue to promote the innovative education and cultivation of the next-generation synthetic biology scientists in China.

The impact of score and weight of regular grade on the total mark in medical microbiology / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective To explore the influence of the scores and weights of the regular grade on the evaluation of students' learning effect.Method To compare the impact of the regular grade before and after adjustment on the total mark,analyze the problems exposed during scoring and search for the solutions according to Medical Microbiology results of four grades including Grade 2010 to 2013.SPSS 13.0 software was used for statistical analysis and Pearson method was used for correlation analysis and theory achievement scores.Results The regular grade of four grades scored highly,with the average (95.00 ± 3.80),(96.00 ± 4.55),(95.00 ± 2.84) and (95.00 ±-2.82) respectively.What was more,it had randomness.The correlation coefficient between regular grade and total mark were 0.069,0.149,0.984 and 0.285 respectively.The regular grade of Grade 2010 was the same as Grade 2013 and the theoretical score of Grade 2013 was 4 points lower than Grade 2010(71 vs.75),however the total mark of Grade 2013 was 1 point higher than Grade 2010 (80 vs.79),which showed the more the regular grade weights,the greater it impacted on the total mark.Conclusion The appropriate score and weight of the regular grade is important to evaluate the students' learning effect objectively.