Table 3 Themes and respective sample excerpts
Perception of usefulness of GI Q1. What features of the GI did you find most useful? | ||
S. No. | Theme | An instance of response from participants artefacts |
A | Interactive video | ‘….interactive video sessions…conceptual information in the video’ |
B | Question prompts | ‘... Questions that were between the videos….’ |
C | Drag and drop activity | ‘….the way it taught each and every detail about the experiment...’ |
D | Domain of genetics | ‘….solving problem of mendelian inheritance…Mendel experiments…..’ |
Perception of usability of GI Q2. After interacting with GI, I learned something which I consider to be valuable. GI is valuable for …. Q3. How do you plan to use the knowledge you obtained from this online workshop in other topic/subjects or anywhere else? Please explain briefly | ||
S. No. | Theme (learning of …) | An instance of response from participants artefacts |
A | Complex cognitive processes | ‘… i will use this in other fields of biology and if possible then in science…topics which can be covered are an example..circulation, respiration, etc.….’ |
B | Genetics concepts | ‘….I would like to research more on the genetic crossing, alleles, Mendel’s theory of crossing and would like to implement the same in other fields…’ |
C | Statistical concepts | ‘…would use in the biostatistics….’ ‘by doing sums online and in chi-square test’ |
D | In advance studies | ‘…..learners who are graduates or even under-graduation…for further education….’ |
Q4. What features of the GI did you find challenging/frustrating? Q5: What challenges did you face during the whole duration of this online workshop? | ||
S. No. | Theme (difficulty in...) | An instance of response from participants artefacts |
A | Predicting the result of an experiment | ‘making ratio’ ‘toggling between options’ ‘punnet square’ |
B | Calculating the chi-square value | ‘calculation of sum’ ‘chi-square statistics’ |
C | Understanding parts of the hypothesis | ‘solving the hypothesis questions’ ‘understanding hypothesis’ ‘I was unable to understand the question’ |