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Ronald A. Jenner – Science & Education, 2025
In 1988, Robert O'Hara coined the now ubiquitous phrase "tree thinking" to highlight the importance of cladistics for proper evolutionary reasoning. This accessible phrase has been taken up widely in the professional, popular, and educational literatures, and it has played an important role in helping spread phylogenetic thinking far…
Descriptors: Evolution, Biology, Thinking Skills, Scientific Concepts
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David Voas; Laura Watt – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2025
Binary logistic regression is one of the most widely used statistical tools. The method uses odds, log odds, and odds ratios, which are difficult to understand and interpret. Understanding of logistic regression tends to fall down in one of three ways: (1) Many students and researchers come to believe that an odds ratio translates directly into…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistics Education, Regression (Statistics), Misconceptions
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Mackenzie S. Rose; Marcus Johnson – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2025
Conceptual knowledge encompasses understanding the interrelationships among multiple pieces of information. Misconceptions of these interrelationships illustrate the need for effective educational strategies to facilitate conceptual change, with the goal of facilitating changes in learner understanding to appropriate, accurate, and complete…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Concept Formation, Misconceptions, Technology Uses in Education
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Aaron J. Sickel – American Biology Teacher, 2025
The research base on students' knowledge of plants has established that misunderstandings develop in the early years of formal education and can persist through middle, secondary, and tertiary education. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that a lack of emphasis on teaching biology from an organismic perspective helps explain the range…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Biology, Science Education, Misconceptions
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Stacy N. McGuire; Victoria J. VanUitert – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Behavior is a form of communication. For many young children, they may engage in certain behaviors to consciously or subconsciously communicate a need to access something, such as a desired adult or peer, sensory stimulation, or a tangible item. Other times, children may engage in a behavior to escape or avoid something, such as a particular…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Identification, Misconceptions, Young Children
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Berrit K. Czinczel; Daniela Fiedler; Ute Harms – American Biology Teacher, 2025
Evolution is the central concept of biology and key to a comprehensive understanding of any complex biological interaction. It has proven to be a particularly difficult subject for both teachers and students. Hybrid teaching environments have the potential to support students in learning about complex topics and simultaneously enable researchers…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Instruction, Biology, Educational Technology
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Kristján Kristjánsson; Tom Harrison; Andrew Peterson – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2025
Is character education flawed as an approach to values education? A 2013 article answered that question in the negative and defused ten common objections against character education as 'myths'. The aim of the present article is to revisit those objections and consider the evidence that has accumulated since 2013. After a brief historical and…
Descriptors: Values Education, Misconceptions, Moral Development, Credibility
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Kevin King – English in Education, 2025
This paper provides educators a foothold in the tricky terrain of metaphor, its theoretical underpinnings and pedagogical possibilities. Metaphor provides us with a means of comprehending domains of experience that do not have a preconceptual structure of their own. Conceptual metaphors permit mental imagery from sensorimotor domains to hold sway…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English Teachers, High School Teachers, College Faculty
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Samuel Jaye Tanner; Erin Miller – Whiteness and Education, 2025
In this conceptual article, the authors advance the idea of critical whiteness pedagogies by arguing that an improvisational ethos offers an alternative to whiteness and might inspire more nuanced anti-racist pedagogies with white people. This framework is born out of years of collaboration between the authors that resulted in an approach to…
Descriptors: Whites, Racism, Social Justice, Educational Change
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Rachel McMillian; Reginald BoClair – Critical Education, 2025
Discussions of Black anarchism are rarely, if ever, found in the fields of educational theory and research. Characterizations of Black anarchism often paint it as a philosophy and praxis to be feared--as a movement that promotes violence and chaos. Yet, as the authors of this piece argue, Black anarchism is exactly the opposite: promoting a vision…
Descriptors: African Americans, Social Systems, African American Attitudes, Social Justice
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Jamie K. Opper – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Introduction: As higher education continues to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), cognitive/behavioral neuroscience and other physiologically based psychology courses may face challenges incorporating DEI issues into the curriculum relative to other subfields of psychology. Statement of the Problem: Instructors of these courses may…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Behavioral Sciences, Neurosciences, Psychology
Afterschool Alliance, 2025
The issue brief spotlights five exemplary afterschool programs that embody these essential characteristics in their programming and strategies to re-engage students. Down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition (BRYC) connects 8th-12th grade students with a "nucleus of adult support," including mentors, counselors, and…
Descriptors: Attendance, Cooking Instruction, Physical Activities, Age Differences