Click Before You Pipette: Building Foundational Pipetting Skills and Confidence With an Interactive Prelaboratory Simulation
Maurizio Costabile, Beth Loveys · 2026
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Description
Costabile and Loveys built an interactive computer simulation that teaches life-science students to read a micropipette dial before they ever touch the real instrument in a teaching laboratory. Reading the dial wrong leads students to deliver wrong volumes, which corrupts experiments and undermines confidence, so the simulation isolates that reading skill for safe practice.
Students at two separate universities completed the simulation and were tested before and afterwards on confidence, unit conversion, and dial-reading accuracy. Both groups improved significantly in self-rated confidence and in reading micropipette scales correctly after the practice session. Student feedback was strongly positive about learning the skill and feeling more capable in the laboratory. The authors present the tool as a low-cost preparation step within blended learning, readying students for hands-on bench work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maurizio Costabile, Beth Loveys |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |