JoinResearch and Teaching: Expectations and Difficulties of First-Year Biology Students
In a study done at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, the author tracked 410 students who majored in biological sciences. He focused on different variables, such as students’ preferred instructional methods and learning styles, expectations from learning, and difficulties encountered. The author found that there is a large variability in students’ learning style preferences. Most students decided to major in biology to gain more knowledge and scientific thinking. Most of their difficulties were with their instructors and the workload.