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ArticleJournal of microbiology & biology education2022

A Lesson from the Pandemic: Utilizing Digital Tools To Support Student Engagement during Instructional Assistant-Led Sessions.

Christina N Morra, Robert Fultz, Samiksha A Raut

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Article in Journal of microbiology & biology education, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Undergraduate Learning Assistants Using Online Messaging Improves Student Educational Experiences in Large Neuroscience Lecture Courses.Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christina N MorraDepartment of Biology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Robert FultzDepartment of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, & Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
Samiksha A RautDepartment of Biology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Funding

Mentored Experiences in Research, Instruction and Teaching (MERIT) Program - administrative supplementK12GM088010 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI SCHNEIDER, DAVID ALAN · 2009 to 2024
$9.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS K12 GM088010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Student instructional assistants (IAs) are an integral part of most students' college experience in higher education. When properly trained, IAs can improve students' grades, engagement with course content, persistence, and retention. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the transition of nearly all instructional practices online. At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, IAs, including Biology Learning Assistants (BLAs), began hosting their instructional sessions virtually, outside of class time. The goals of these sessions were to reinforce fundamental concepts using active learning strategies and to address student questions by building a supportive learning community. In this article, we summarize the training and guidance we provided to the BLAs regarding how best to adapt digital educational tools to engage students during their virtual sessions. We recommend that institutions of higher education recognize the expansion of digital educational tools as an opportunity to increase the technological literacy and competence of their IAs to best serve their student body in this increasingly digital age of education.

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active learningdigital toolslearning assistantsTeaching Assistantstraining

Identifiers

PMID36532207
PMCPMC9753610

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