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Cisnormative Language and Erasure of Trans* and Genderqueer Student Representation in Biology Education Research
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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
The Gendered Impact of Depression on Undergraduate Students' Research Gains: Can More Competent Mentors Help?
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Sara E. Grineski; Callie Avondet; Danielle X. Morales; Timothy W. Collins; Yolanda Chavez; Sergio Armendariz – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
There are serious concerns about mental health on college campuses. Depression negatively impacts college student success. Women and transgender/gender-nonconforming students suffer from depression at higher rates than men. While undergraduate research is a high-impact practice, we know little about how depression affects outcomes among…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students, Depression (Psychology)
Disrupting the Master Narrative in Academic Biology as LGBTQ+ Ph.D. Students: Learning, Teaching, and Conducting Research
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Samantha A. Maas; Nicholas J. Wiesenthal; Sara E. Brownell; Katelyn M. Cooper – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
LGBTQ+ individuals face discrimination and stigma in academic biology. These challenges are likely magnified for graduate students. However, there have been no studies documenting the experiences of LGBTQ+ life sciences graduate students. To address this gap, we conducted an interview study of 22 biology PhD students from 13 universities across…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, LGBTQ People, Biology, College Science
How Do Students Critically Evaluate Outdated Language That Relates to Gender in Biology?
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Ryan D. P. Dunk; Sarah J. Malmquist; Kristina K. Prescott; Sharday N. Ewell; Jeremiah A. Henning; Cissy J. Ballen – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Cisheteronormative ideologies are infused into every aspect of society, including undergraduate science. We set out to identify the extent to which students can identify cisheteronormative language in biology textbooks by posing several hypothetical textbook questions and asking students to modify them to make the language more accurate (defined…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Few LGBTQ+ Science and Engineering Instructors Come Out to Students, Despite Potential Benefits
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Carly A. Busch; Parth B. Bhanderi; Katelyn M. Cooper; Sara E. Brownell – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
LGBTQ+ undergraduates have higher attrition from science and engineering (S&E) than straight and cisgender undergraduates and perceive that having LGBTQ+ instructors would benefit them. However, it is unknown how many S&E instructors are LGBTQ+, the extent to which they disclose this information to students, and how disclosure affects…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, College Faculty, Science Teachers, Engineering Education
"It's Been a Process": A Multiple Case Study of Biology Instructor Efforts to Reform Their Sex and Gender Curriculum to Be More Inclusive of Students with Queer Genders and Intersex Students
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Emily P. Driessen; Keenan E. Walker; Tess Hallman; Aramati Casper; Sarah L. Eddy; Joel R. Schneider; A. Kelly Lane; Stanley Lo, Editor – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Inaccurate sex and gender narratives have saturated the political landscape, resulting in legal restrictions for people with queer genders. Biology educators can correct these false narratives by teaching scientifically accurate and queer gender and intersex inclusive sex and gender curriculum. Here, we interviewed four undergraduate biology…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Biology, Science Instruction
"Broadening Perspectives Activities" Improve LGBTQ+ Student Experiences and Religious Students' Content Comprehension
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Danny Jackson; Kelsey Yule; Alex Biera; Caitlin Hawley; Jason Lacson; Emily Webb; Kevin McGraw; Katelyn M. Cooper – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Curricular content in undergraduate biology courses has been historically hetero and cisnormative due to various cultural stigmas, biases, and discrimination. Such curricula may be partially responsible for why LGBTQ+ students in STEM are less likely to complete their degrees than their non-LGBTQ+ counterparts. We developed Broadening Perspective…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Science Education, Disproportionate Representation, LGBTQ People
The Disproportionate Impact of Fear of Negative Evaluation on First-Generation College Students, LGBTQ+ Students, and Students with Disabilities in College Science Courses
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Busch, Carly A.; Wiesenthal, Nicholas J.; Mohammed, Tasneem F.; Anderson, Shauna; Barstow, Margaret; Custalow, Cydney; Gajewski, Jas; Garcia, Kristin; Gilabert, Cynthia K.; Hughes, Joseph; Jenkins, Aliyah; Johnson, Miajah; Kasper, Cait; Perez, Israel; Robnett, Brieana; Tillett, Kaytlin; Tsefrekas, Lauren; Goodwin, Emma C.; Cooper, Katelyn M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Fear of negative evaluation (FNE), defined as a sense of dread associated with being negatively judged in a social situation, has been identified as the primary factor underlying undergraduate anxiety in active-learning science courses. However, no quantitative studies have examined the extent to which science undergraduates experience FNE and how…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Fear
"It's Completely Erasure": A Qualitative Exploration of Experiences of Transgender, Nonbinary, Gender Nonconforming, and Questioning Students in Biology Courses
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Casper, A. M. Aramati; Rebolledo, Nico; Lane, A. Kelly; Jude, Luke; Eddy, Sarah L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Biology is the study of the diversity of life, which includes diversity in sex, gender, and sexual, romantic, and related orientations. However, a small body of literature suggests that undergraduate biology courses focus on only a narrow representation of this diversity (binary sexes, heterosexual orientations, etc.). In this study, we…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity, Biology
How Do Students' Science, Social, and Personal Identities Influence Their Experiences in Undergraduate Field Biology Courses?
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David Esparza; Laura Reilly-Sanchez; Michelle Smith – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Field biology courses can be formative learning experiences that develop students' science identities. Yet, they can also pose challenges to students that may disaffirm their science identities--especially to those who identify with underrepresented, excluded, and minoritized groups. It is largely unknown how students' social (e.g., gender) and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology, Science Education
Factors Influencing Retention of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students in Undergraduate STEM Majors
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Maloy, Jeffrey; Kwapisz, Monika B.; Hughes, Bryce E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Despite calls for improved data-collection efforts tracking transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, there have been no reports of TGNC continuation in STEM majors at the university level. Using national, longitudinal data from the Higher Education Research Institute…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Sexual Identity, LGBTQ People
Unveiling Concealable Stigmatized Identities in Class: The Impact of an Instructor Revealing Her LGBTQ+ Identity to Students in a Large-Enrollment Biology Course
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Busch, Carly A.; Supriya, K.; Cooper, Katelyn M.; Brownell, Sara E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Sharing personal information can help instructors build relationships with students, and instructors revealing concealable stigmatized identities (CSIs) may be particularly impactful. One CSI is the LGBTQ+ identity, but there has been no research on the student-perceived impact of an instructor revealing this identity. In this exploratory study…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, College Faculty, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Student Attitudes
Signaling Inclusivity in Undergraduate Biology Courses through Deliberate Framing of Genetics Topics Relevant to Gender Identity, Disability, and Race
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Hales, Karen G. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
The study of genetics centers on how encoded information in DNA underlies similarities and differences between individuals and how traits are inherited. Genetics topics covered in a wide variety of undergraduate biology classrooms can relate to various identities held by students such as gender identity, disability, and race/ethnicity, among…
Descriptors: Genetics, Biology, Undergraduate Study, Sexual Identity
Beyond Gender and Race: The Representation of Concealable Identities among College Science Instructors at Research Institutions
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Carly A. Busch; Tala Araghi; Jingyi He; Katelyn M. Cooper; Sara E. Brownell – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Concealable stigmatized identities (CSIs) are identities that can be kept hidden and carry negative stereotypes. To understand the potential influence instructors have as role models, we must first explore the identities instructors have and whether they disclose those identities to undergraduates. We surveyed national samples of science…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, College Faculty, Research Universities, Social Bias
Fourteen Recommendations to Create a More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Individuals in Academic Biology
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Cooper, Katelyn M.; Auerbach, Anna Jo J.; Bader, Jordan D.; Beadles-Bohling, Amy S.; Brashears, Jacqueline A.; Cline, Erica; Eddy, Sarah L.; Elliott, Deanna B.; Farley, Elijah; Fuselier, Linda; Heinz, Heather M.; Irving, Madison; Josek, Tanya; Lane, A. Kelly; Lo, Stanley M.; Maloy, Jeffrey; Nugent, Michelle; Offerdahl, Erika; Palacios-Moreno, Juan; Ramos, Jorge; Reid, Joshua W.; Sparks, Rachel A.; Waring, Ashley L.; Wilton, Mike; Gormally, Cara; Brownell, Sara E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and otherwise nonstraight and/or non-cisgender (LGBTQ+) have often not felt welcome or represented in the biology community. Additionally, biology can present unique challenges for LGBTQ+ students because of the relationship between certain biology topics and their LGBTQ+…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, At Risk Students, Science Instruction, Biology