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Clara L. Meaders; Lilyan Mendez; Alfonso Godínez Aguilar; Angelita T. Rivera; Izabella Vasquez; Liam O. Mueller; Melinda T. Owens – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Introductory biology is a gateway course for majors and other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Despite the importance of chemistry content knowledge for understanding biology, the relationship between chemistry knowledge and prior coursework and biology course performance is understudied. We used an opportunity…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Chemistry, Intervention
Emiliano Foresto; Fiorela Nievas; Walter Giordano; Pablo Bogino – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The curriculum for undergraduate Agricultural Engineering does not usually include much laboratory practice. In order to address this, here we propose the design of a practical class on legume-rhizobia symbiosis, using an interdisciplinary approach that takes elements from botany, agriculture, and microbiology. The students perform an assay to…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Science, Prior Learning
Laura B. Armstrong; Lauren M. Irie; Kelly Chou; Mariana Rivas; Michelle C. Douskey; Anne M. Baranger – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
For the past decade, the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley has iteratively redesigned general chemistry laboratory courses to introduce students to green chemistry concepts, while simultaneously using green chemistry as a relevant context to learn chemistry. To investigate the effectiveness of this curriculum we developed approaches to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Conservation (Environment), Knowledge Level
Kirsty Dunnett; Anders Mattias Lundmark – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
'A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline' is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth. We examine this assumption by considering the disciplinary crossing of buoyancy (physics) to isostasy (geoscience). We investigate the teachers' perspective through…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Earth Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Physics
Quan-Thanh Huynh; Yu-Chuan Yang – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Numerous studies have proven the learning benefits of concept maps in science subjects, particularly for students with low prior knowledge. There is a scarcity of research dedicated to the examination of chemistry courses at the university level, and the findings pertaining to academic performance in that subject exhibit a lack of consistency.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Concept Mapping, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Levi C. Ofoe – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2025
Purpose: This study examined the learning experiences of speech-language pathology students after creating three-dimensional (3D) anatomical models as part of an undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology course. Method: A total of 44 undergraduate students used 3D software programs to design anatomical components (e.g., larynx, brainstem, brain cortex,…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Occupations Education, Student Attitudes, Anatomy
Charles E. Jakobsche – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Our goal as educators should be to help our students become well positioned to achieve future success. To develop effective strategies for accomplishing this objective, we must first understand the root causes of success. Thus, to best serve undergraduate students who are taking organic chemistry courses, we must understand the attributes that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Organic Chemistry, College Science
Flaherty, A. A. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
Organic Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything (OCLUE) is an undergraduate lecture-based organic chemistry course that has been transformed in line with the vision for science education set out by the 'Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas' (National Research Council, 2012). OCLUE is designed…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Science Education
Anthony Howcroft; Daniel King – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Students come into the classroom with a variety of background knowledge. Therefore, it is imperative that educators are able to help all students, regardless of their familiarity with the content. Since it can be challenging for some large enrollment classes to schedule recitation classes after lectures due to logistical constraints, this study…
Descriptors: Time, Course Content, Student Evaluation, Tests
Haldolaarachchige, Neel; Hettiarachchilage, Kalani – Physics Education, 2022
Physics educators keep adding many skill developments to science and engineering students during their education as individuals and groups including critical thinking, conceptual understanding, problem-solving, mathematical implementation, computational implementation, etc. Here, we are discussing how to reach and analyse students' outcomes within…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Calculus, In Person Learning
Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment of Students' Responses: An Example from Energy and Momentum Concepts
Dega, Bekele Gashe – European Journal of Physics Education, 2019
Students' responses to energy & momentum (EM) concepts were investigated. EM concepts are fundamental and crosscutting in physics. A standardized Energy and Momentum Conceptual Survey (EMCS) test were used to collect quantitative data from 108 first year science students enrolled in a university in Ethiopia. Concentration analysis was used to…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Energy, Physics, College Freshmen
Oladipo, Adenike Julianah; Osokoya, Modupe; Udeani, Uchenna – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2019
In this explorative study, a diagnostic test on diffusion and osmosis (DTDO) was developed and used to assess pre-degree students' conceptual understanding and application of diffusion and osmosis in biology. The 25-item DTDO is a two-tier test--adapted from Odom and Barrow's (1995) Diffusion Osmosis Diagnostic Test (DODT)--developed and validated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts, Biology, Concept Formation
Binder, Torsten; Schmiemann, Philipp; Theyssen, Heike – Education Sciences, 2019
This study investigates the knowledge acquisition of biology and physics freshmen students with special regard to differences between high school (HS) high performing and low performing students. Our study is based on a prior knowledge model, which describes explicit knowledge as a composite of four knowledge types: knowledge of facts, knowledge…
Descriptors: College Science, Biology, Physics, Prior Learning
Utz, Jenifer C.; Bernacki, Matthew L. – HAPS Educator, 2018
This study examined students' voluntary use of digital self-assessment quizzes as a resource for learning in a large anatomy and physiology lecture course. Students (n = 238) could use 16 chapter quizzes and four analogous unit quizzes to rehearse and self-assess knowledge. Most students (75%) engaged in occasional use of self-assessment quiz…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Computer Assisted Testing, Anatomy, Physiology
Mistry, Nimesh; Gorman, Stephen G. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
To be able to design a laboratory course it is important to know what laboratory skills students possess before the course starts. This way the course can focus on developing skills in areas that are lacking. Despite the extensive literature on laboratory education, there are few studies on what laboratory skills students have at this stage of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Skill Development, Knowledge Level