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Fostering Students’ Understanding of Complex Biological Systems

Melde G. R. Gilissen

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Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, 3844 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands

Bonhoeffer College Bruggertstraat, 7545 AX Enschede, The Netherlands

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Marie-Christine P. J. Knippels

Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, 3844 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Wouter R. van Joolingen

Bonhoeffer College Bruggertstraat, 7545 AX Enschede, The Netherlands

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Published Online:28 Jun 2021https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-05-0088

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Submitted: 8 May 2020

Revised: 4 May 2021

Accepted: 18 May 2021

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© 2021 M. G. R. Gilissen et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2021 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We are grateful to the school, the students, the observers, and especially the teachers for their contributions to this study. This research was supported by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science through the Dudoc program.