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Tise, Joseph C.; Sperling, Rayne A.; Dann, Michael S.; Young, Taylor M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Analogical reasoning is an important type of cognition often used by experts across domains. Little research, however, has investigated how generating analogies can support college students' self-regulated learning (SRL) of biology. This study therefore evaluated a contextualized cognitive learning strategy intervention designed to teach students…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Learning Strategies, Biology, Science Instruction
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Parsley, Kathryn M.; Daigle, Bernie J.; Sabel, Jaime L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Plant awareness disparity (PAD, formerly plant blindness) is the idea that students tend not to notice or appreciate the plants in their environment. This phenomenon often leads to naïve points of view, such as plants are not important or do not do anything for humans. There are four components of PAD: attitude (not liking plants), attention (not…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Plants (Botany)
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Maskour, Lhoussaine; Alami, Anouar; Moncef Zaki; Boujemaa Agorram – Education Sciences, 2019
This study aims to assess learning outcomes and identify students' misconceptions in plant classification. We conducted a questionnaire survey with undergraduate and master's students. The qualitative analysis of the students' responses made it possible to shed light on the difficulties of assimilation of many notions and also to identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plants (Botany), Classification, Knowledge Management
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Malinska, Lilianna; Rybska, Eliza; Sobieszczuk-Nowicka, Ewa; Adamiec, Malgorzata – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
University students often struggle to understand the role of water in plant cells. In particular, osmosis and plasmolysis appear to be challenging topics. This study attempted to identify student difficulties (including misconceptions) concerning osmosis and plasmolysis and examined to what extent the difficulties could be revised during a plant…
Descriptors: College Students, College Science, Water, Plants (Botany)
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Zangori, Laura; Koontz, Jason A. – Journal of Biological Education, 2017
Undergraduate biology majors require biological literacy about the critical and dynamic relationships between plants and ecosystems and the effect human-made processes have on these systems. To support students in understanding systems relationships, we redesigned an undergraduate botany course using an ecological framework and embedded systems…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Biology, Majors (Students)
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Södervik, Ilona; Virtanen, Viivi; Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
University students' understanding of photosynthesis was examined in a large introductory biosciences class. The focus of this study was to first examine the conceptions of photosynthesis among students in class and then to investigate how a certain type of text could enhance students' understanding of photosynthesis. The study was based on pre-…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Scientific Concepts, Plants (Botany)
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Irani, Tracy; Wilson, Sandra B.; Roberts, Grady; Rhoades, Emily B – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
Distance education has created new challenges with respect to the course evaluation process. This study aimed to determine if the adopted Telecourse Evaluation Questionnaire (TEQ) could be used to effectively evaluate a course developed for multisite distance delivery and taught by a team of instructors. It utilized a pretest and posttest…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), College Students, Distance Education, Course Evaluation