Despite the central place held by bioinformatics in modern life sciences and related areas, it
has only recently been integrated to a limited extent into high-school teaching and learning …

Bioinformatics is an integral part of modern life sciences. It has revolutionized and redefined
how research is carried out and has had an enormous impact on biotechnology, medicine …

The key role of bioinformatics in explaining biological phenomena calls for the need to
rethink didactic approaches at high school aligned with a new scientific reality. Despite …

The interdisciplinary nature of bioinformatics makes it an ideal framework to develop
activities enabling enquiry-based learning. We describe here the development and …

Following the rationale that learning is an active process of knowledge construction as well
as enculturation into a community of experts, we developed a novel web-based learning …

Bioinformatics education can be broadly defined as the teaching and learning of the use of
computer and information technology, along with mathematical and statistical analysis for …

Of concern is an international trend of students' increasing reluctance to choose science
courses in both their final years of secondary school and tertiary levels of education …

Previous research has documented that students who engage with socioscientific issues
can acquire some of the complex competences and skills typically related to scientific …

Scientific literacy involves the ability to read with understanding, determine salient from
irrelevant information, explain and predict scientific events, and evaluate and apply …

The development of scientifically literate citizens remains an important priority of science
education; however, growing evidence of students' disenchantment with school science …