RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Service-learning educational approach for undergraduate students: development of an outreach workshop for high school students
A1 Zamorano-González, Pablo
A1 Aiastui Pujana, Ana
A1 García-Durán, Laura
A1 Claros-Gil, Silvia
A1 López-González, Manuel Víctor
A1 González-García, Marta
A1 Carrillo-Franco, Laura
A1 Ponce-Velasco, Marina
A1 Gago-Calderón, Belén
K1 Aprendizaje - Metodología
K1 Enseñanza superior
AB In the last decade, research institutes and universities have strengthened the development of outreach activities inthe biomedical field, involving researchers and professors as well as graduate students, but with little or noimplication of undergraduate students. However, the development of this type of activities, using theService-Learning educational approach, could be a valuable tool that would manage the acquisition of learningcompetencies by undergraduate students of Health Science Degrees and would put science at the service ofsociety. In this project, we present the development of the workshop entitled “Exploring the human body”, in which205 students in their first and second year of a Degree in Nursing or Medicine (University of Málaga, Spain) actedas mentors of 753 high school students (15 to 16 years old) in several school years (since 2016-2017, excluding2019-2020 and 2020-2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The workshop consisted of five work stations. Eachstation featured a set of different experiments and activities that were designed to teach the multiple levels bywhich the human body, and particularly the nervous system, can be studied: biomolecules, cells, tissues, organsand systems. Both high school and undergraduate students gave an evaluation of the workshop via questionnaires(Likert scale-based and short-answer questions) and a debriefing with the university professors. Data showed anoverall score of 4.6 out of 5 points for the workshop by both high school and undergraduate students. In addition,undergraduate students pointed out that their participation had a positive impact on their academic background (4.8out of 5 points), mainly due to the improvement of their oral communication skills (78 students) and self-confidence(58 students).
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27547
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27547
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Servicio de Publicaciones y DivulgaciónUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026