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Direct linkCreech, Catherine; Just, Jan; Hammarlund, Sarah; Rolle, Cleo E.; Gonsar, Ngawang Y.; Olson, Alyssa; Campbell, Nikaila; Mennes, Karissa; Adoradio, Cecilia; Soneral, Paula; Ewell, Sharday; Mazur, Clay; Lane, A. Kelly; Hewlett, James; Cotner, Sehoya – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Interest in biology education research (BER) has been growing over the last two decades, yet few BER publications focus on community colleges, which serve a large percentage of the undergraduate student population and a majority of those students who identify with historically underserved groups. In this paper, we define community college biology…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Biology, Educational Research, Periodicals
Download full textEwell, Sharday N.; Cotner, Sehoya; Drake, Abby Grace; Fagbodun, Sheritta; Google, Angela; Robinson, Lecia; Soneral, Paula; Ballen, Cissy J. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
To achieve meaningful learning experiences in online classrooms, students must become self-regulated learners through the development of effective study habits. Currently, there is no set of recommendations to promote study habits in online biology learning environments. To fill gaps in our understanding, a working group associated with a research…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Education, Online Courses, Study Habits
Barron, Hillary A.; Brown, Julie C.; Cotner, Sehoya – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
Science as an enterprise has been and continues to be exclusionary, perpetuating inequities among whose voice is heard as well as what/whose knowledge is recognized as valid. Women, people of color, and persons with disabilities are still vastly outnumbered in science and engineering by their White, male counterparts. These types of imbalances…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
Cotner, Sehoya; Jeno, Lucas M.; Walker, J. D.; Jørgensen, Christian; Vandvik, Vigdis – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background: Understanding student motivational factors such as test anxiety and science confidence is important for increasing retention in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), especially for underrepresented students, such as women. We investigated motivational metrics in over 400 introductory biology students in Norway, a country…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Biology, College Students
Odom, Sara; Boso, Halle; Bowling, Scott; Brownell, Sara; Cotner, Sehoya; Creech, Catherine; Drake, Abby Grace; Eddy, Sarah; Fagbodun, Sheritta; Hebert, Sadie; James, Avis C.; Just, Jan; St. Juliana, Justin R.; Shuster, Michele; Thompson, Seth K.; Whittington, Richard; Wills, Bill D.; Wilson, Alan E.; Zamudio, Kelly R.; Zhong, Min; Ballen, Cissy J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
To investigate patterns of gender-based performance gaps, we conducted a meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished data collected across 169 undergraduate biology and chemistry courses. While we did not detect an overall gender gap in performance, heterogeneity analyses suggested further analysis was warranted, so we investigated whether…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Science Achievement, College Science
Aguillon, Stepfanie M.; Siegmund, Gregor-Fausto; Petipas, Renee H.; Drake, Abby Grace; Cotner, Sehoya; Ballen, Cissy J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Overwhelming evidence demonstrating the benefits of active-learning pedagogy has led to a shift in teaching that requires students to interact more in the classroom. To date, few studies have assessed whether there are gender-specific differences in participation in active-learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Active Learning, Student Participation, College Students
Zhao, Fangfang; Roehrig, Gillian; Patrick, Lorelei; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal; Cotner, Sehoya – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2021
Inquiry-based laboratory activities, as a part of science curricula, have been advocated to increase students' learning outcomes and improve students' learning experiences, but students sometimes struggle with open-inquiry activities. This study aims to investigate students' perceptions of inquiry-based learning in a set of laboratory activities,…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychological Needs
Kirkpatrick, Catherine; Schuchardt, Anita; Baltz, Daniel; Cotner, Sehoya – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have the potential to improve undergraduate biology education by involving large numbers of students in research. CUREs can take a variety of forms with different affordances and constraints, complicating the evaluation of design features that might contribute to successful outcomes. In this…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Education, Comparative Analysis
Cotner, Sehoya; Graczyk, Hannah; Rodríguez Garcia, José Luis; Moore, Randy – Journal of Biological Education, 2016
In June 2013, the third World Evolution Summit convened on San Cristóbal, hosting scientists from around the world (Paz-y-Miño-C and Espinosa 2013)--neither the first nor likely the last gathering of biologists on these remote islands. Clearly, both locals and an international audience perceive Galápagos as figuring prominently in discourse about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biology, Evolution, Science Teachers
Thompson, Seth K.; Hebert, Sadie; Berk, Sara; Brunelli, Rebecca; Creech, Catherine; Drake, Abby Grace; Fagbodun, Sheritta; Garcia-Ojeda, Marcos E.; Hall, Carrie; Harshman, Jordan; Lamb, Todd; Robnett, Rachael; Shuster, Michèle; Cotner, Sehoya; Ballen, Cissy J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
National efforts to improve equitable teaching practices in biology education have led to an increase in research on the barriers to student participation and performance, as well as solutions for overcoming these barriers. Fewer studies have examined the extent to which the resulting data trends and effective strategies are generalizable across…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Networks
Hebert, Sadie; Cotner, Sehoya – American Biology Teacher, 2019
Recommendations for undergraduate biology education include integration of research experiences into the curriculum, regardless of major. While non-biology majors and biology majors differ in affective characteristics, it is not clear if they differ in their incoming science process skills. We created a scenario-based assessment instrument --…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Comparative Analysis, Science Education, Undergraduate Students
Ratcliff, William C.; Raney, Allison; Westreich, Sam; Cotner, Sehoya – American Biology Teacher, 2014
The evolution of complexity remains one of the most challenging topics in biology to teach effectively. We present a novel laboratory activity, modeled on a recent experimental breakthrough, in which students experimentally evolve simple multicellularity using single-celled yeast ("Saccharomyces cerevisiae"). By simply selecting for…
Descriptors: Evolution, Biology, Science Activities, Science Laboratories
Cotner, Sehoya; Thompson, Seth; Wright, Robin – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Recent calls to action urge sweeping reform in science education, advocating for improved learning for "all" students--including those majoring in fields beyond the sciences. However, little work has been done to characterize the differences--if any exist--between students planning a career in science and those studying other…
Descriptors: Biology, STEM Education, Majors (Students), Nonmajors
Schauer, Alexandria; Cotner, Sehoya; Moore, Randy – American Biology Teacher, 2014
Students regard evolutionary theory differently than science in general. Students' reported confidence in their ability to understand science in general (e.g., posing scientific questions, interpreting tables and graphs, and understanding the content of their biology course) significantly outweighed their confidence in understanding evolution. We…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Evolution, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
Walker, J. D.; Wassenberg, Deena; Franta, Gabriel; Cotner, Sehoya – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2017
Certain scientific conclusions are controversial, in that they are rejected by a substantial proportion of nonscientists despite an overwhelming scientific consensus. Science educators are motivated to help students understand the evidence behind the scientific consensus on these matters and to move students' views into alignment with those held…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Resistance (Psychology), Controversial Issues (Course Content), Scientific Attitudes
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