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Direct linkJeremy L. Hsu; Rou-Jia Sung; Su L. Swarat; Alexandra J. Gore; Stephanie Kim; Stanley M. Lo – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Existing research has investigated student problem-solving strategies across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; however, there is limited work in undergraduate biology education on how various aspects that influence learning combine to generate holistic approaches to problem solving. Through the lens of situated cognition, we…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Biology, Science Instruction, Holistic Approach
Austin Heil; Joshua Olaniran; Cara Gormally; Marguerite Brickman – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Biology education researchers seek to improve biology education, particularly at the introductory level, yet there is little documentation about what is actually happening in introductory biology. To characterize the landscape of learning expectations for introductory biology, we analyzed course-level learning objectives (n = 1108) and course…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Introductory Courses, Biology, Educational Objectives
Catie Nielson; Emma Pitt; Michal Fux; Kristin de Nesnera; Nicole Betz; Jessica S. Leffers; Kimberly D. Tanner; John D. Coley – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Previous research has shown that students employ intuitive thinking when understanding scientific concepts. Three types of intuitive thinking--essentialist, teleological, and anthropic thinking--are used in biology learning and can lead to misconceptions. However, it is unknown how commonly these types of intuitive thinking, or cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Usage, College Students, Biology, Scientific Concepts
Sharleen Flowers; Kal H. Holder; Gabrielle K. Rump; Stephanie M. Gardner – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Explaining biological phenomena requires understanding how different processes function and describing interactions between components at various levels of organization over time and space in biological systems. This is a desired competency yet is a complicated and often challenging task for undergraduate biology students. Therefore, we need a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cytology, Biology, Scientific Concepts
Bailey M. Von der Mehden; Eric M. Pennino; Heather L. Fajardo; Catherine Ishikawa; Kelly. K. McDonald – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are attractive solutions for scaling undergraduate research experiences at primarily undergraduate teaching institutions, where resources for faculty research activities can be limited. The Sustainable Interdisciplinary Research to Inspire Undergraduate Success (SIRIUS) project is a unique…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Research, Biology
Emily K. Bremers; Olive K. McKay; Julie Dangremond Stanton – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
When students use metacognition, they can more effectively problem solve on their own and in groups. Most metacognition studies have focused on individual learners while a few studies have begun to explore the metacognition learners use in social settings. Little is known about the comparison between how an individual student may use metacognition…
Descriptors: College Science, Biology, Metacognition, Problem Solving
Miranda M. Chen Musgrove; Melissa E. Ko; Jeffrey N. Schinske; Lisa A. Corwin – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Discipline-based education research (DBER) has experienced dramatic growth over recent years, but with growth comes concerns about whether DBER efforts accurately represent the education landscape. By many measures, DBER does not feature a representative range of institutional contexts or a diverse array of voices. Numerous professional…
Descriptors: Biology, Educational Research, Disproportionate Representation, Community Colleges
Kaitlyn Coburn; Kris Troy; Carly A. Busch; Naomi Barber-Choi; Kevin M. Bonney; Brock Couch; Marcos E. García-Ojeda; Rachel Hutto; Lauryn Famble; Matt Flagg; Tracy Gladding; Anna Kowalkowski; Carlos Landaverde; Stanley M. Lo; Kimberly MacLeod; Blessed Mbogo; Taya Misheva; Andy Trinh; Rebecca Vides; Erik Wieboldt; Cara Gormally; Jeffrey Maloy – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Trans* and genderqueer student retention and liberation is integral for equity in undergraduate education. While STEM leadership calls for data-supported systemic change, the erasure and othering of trans* and genderqueer identities in STEM research perpetuates cisnormative narratives. We sought to characterize how sex and gender data are…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Transgender People, Disproportionate Representation, Educational Research
Daniel L. Reinholz; Tessa C. Andrews – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Change theory has increasingly become an area of scholarship in STEM education. While this area has traditionally been a topic for organizational psychology, business management, communication studies, and higher education, STEM education researchers are increasingly aware of the need to use formal theories to guide change efforts and research.…
Descriptors: Change, STEM Education, Theories, Vocabulary
Maryrose Weatherton; Elisabeth E. Schussler; Jennifer R. Brigati; Hope Ferguson; Isabel Boyd; Benjamin J. England – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
High levels of student anxiety are negatively related to degree persistence, academic achievement, and student perceptions of instructor support. Anxiety levels vary along many axes--among classes, within students in the same class, and over time--creating a dynamic emotional landscape in classrooms. In this study, we examined the relationship…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Teacher Role, Teacher Influence, Correlation
Clare G. -C. Franovic; Nicholas R. Williams; Keenan Noyes; Michael W. Klymkowsky; Melanie M. Cooper – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Concerns regarding students' difficulties with the concept of energy date back to the 1970s. They become particularly apparent for systems involving adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which plays a central role in maintaining the nonequilibrium state of biological systems and in driving energetically unfavorable processes. One of the most…
Descriptors: Energy, Biology, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
Momsen, Jennifer; Bray Speth, Elena; Wyse, Sara; Long, Tammy – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
As biological science rapidly generates new knowledge and novel approaches to address increasingly complex and integrative questions, biology educators face the challenge of teaching the next generation of biologists and citizens the skills and knowledge to enable them to keep pace with a dynamic field. Fundamentally, biology is the science of…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Biology, Science Education, Thinking Skills
Creech, 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
The DNA Landscape: Development and Application of a New Framework for Visual Communication about DNA
Wright, L. Kate; Wrightstone, Emalee; Trumpore, Lauren; Steele, Julia; Abid, Deanna M.; Newman, Dina L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Learning molecular biology involves using visual representations to communicate ideas about largely unobservable biological processes and molecules. Genes and gene expression cannot be directly visualized, but students are expected to learn and understand these and related concepts. Theoretically, textbook illustrations should help learners master…
Descriptors: Genetics, Textbooks, Illustrations, Biology
Alex H. Waugh; Kathryn E. Green; Tessa C. Andrews – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Active-learning instructors are more effective when they use pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to anticipate, interpret, and respond to student thinking. PCK is topic-specific and includes knowledge of student thinking (e.g., common difficulties) and knowledge of instructional strategies (e.g., effective learning tasks). Currently, we know…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Biology, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
