Redesigning Human Body Systems: Effective Pedagogical Strategy for Promoting Active Learning and STEM Education

Table 3

Students’ perspectives on the status of the human body’s design.

The status of the human body design	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly agree
(1) Human body is perfectly designed; No need for improvement.
(2) Human body is well designed; but can benefit from a few improvements.
(3) Human body is functional with ok design, and can benefit from a few re-designs for improvement.
(4) Human is functional, but not perfectly designed, and can benefit from the re-designed of many of its parts.
(5) Human body needs total re-design to optimize its efficiency and functionality.
(6) Wonderfully design doesn’t necessary mean also wonderfully develop.
(7) Wonderfully develop doesn’t necessary mean also wonderfully made.

(6) and (7) are modified from Dawkins [4].