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Young, Sheila A.; Newton, Amanda R.; Fowler, Samantha R.; Park, Joo – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This research shows that employing critical thinking (problem-solving and scientific reasoning) skills when learning about climate change helped undergraduate biology students to understand the subject matter better. In this post hoc analysis of pre- and post-test scores from a public Florida undergraduate college, we identified significant…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Undergraduate Students, Biology, Climate
Baiq Fatmawati; M. Marzuki; Fenny Roshayanti; Purwati Kuswarini Suprapto – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
"Kurikulum Merdeka" is a learning experience framework that offers flexibility and focuses on essential content, character development, and students' competencies. Teachers had the discretion to develop their modules to choose, design, and organize the learning contents for students, based on their needs. By using that module, there is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Problem Based Learning, Biology
Penuel, William R. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2019
This essay presents infrastructuring as a useful construct for guiding efforts to support more equitable implementation and sustainability of resources developed to support student learning in design-based research. "Infrastructuring" refers to activities that aim to redesign components, relations, and routines of schools and districts…
Descriptors: Design, Teamwork, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
Prinster, Andrew J.; Hoskins, Josephina L.; Strode, Paul K. – American Biology Teacher, 2019
Students learning the skills of science benefit from opportunities to move between the scientific problems and questions they confront and the mathematical tools available to answer the questions and solve the problems. Indeed, students learn science best when they are actively engaged in pursuing answers to authentic and relevant questions. We…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Process Skills, Problem Solving, Statistical Analysis
Charles, Abigail Sheena – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the knowledge and skills that biology students may need to help them understand statistics/mathematics as it applies to genetics. The data are based on analyses of current representative genetics texts, practicing genetics professors' perspectives, and more directly, students' perceptions of, and performance in, doing…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Statistics, Mathematics
Cantu, Diana – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2011
Trash is having a global impact not only on land, but at sea--making its way into the ocean and creating large islands of floating debris. One such island is The Great Pacific Trash Patch, which is located in the North Pacific and is made up of floating trash and debris that is spread out in an area as much as one and a half times the size of the…
Descriptors: Sanitation, Environmental Influences, Wastes, Oceanography
Lankford, Deanna; vom Saal, Fredrick – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2012
In order to be effective competitors in the marketplace, students must be able to think critically, communicate complex ideas through writing, collaborate with peers, and apply their knowledge of biological science to generate solutions for issues facing society. In this paper we examine the nature of the instructional tools, strategies, and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Educational Strategies, Cooperation, Biology

Collins, Angelo; Stewart, James H. – American Biology Teacher, 1989
Examines the content knowledge of genetics as it is organized for solving effect-to-cause problems. Reviews proposed reasons explaining why students find genetics difficult to learn. Explains dominant and codominant inheritance patterns, multiple alleles, and X-linkage. (RT)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, Genetics, Heredity
O'Connor, Kim C. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2007
Advances in the biological sciences necessitate the training of chemical engineers to translate these fundamental discoveries into applications that will benefit society. Accordingly, Tulane University revised its core chemical engineering curriculum in 2005 to include a new introductory course in bioengineering and biotechnology for sophomores.…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Science Instruction
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Bureau of Curriculum Development. – 1983
Education is a process of adapting to change, and the rate of change is especially rapid in science today. This curriculum in human biology is an alternative to the New York State courses in general and Regents biology, and it has been designed to focus on change from the standpoint of the urban student. It is designed to provide students with…
Descriptors: Biology, Blood Circulation, Disease Control, Ecology

Koritz, Helen G.; Callery, Michael L. – American Biology Teacher, 1974
Describes the methods used in a general-biology course at the College of Mount Saint Vincent and Manhattan College (Riverdale, New York) in which a problem solving approach is used in conjunction with the audiotutorial method of instruction. (JR)
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Course Descriptions, Instruction

Stencel, John E. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1992
Explains how a simple three-step algorithm can aid college students in solving synapse transmission problems. Reports that all of the students did not completely understand the algorithm. However, many learn a simple working model of synaptic transmission and understand why an impulse will pass across a synapse quantitatively. Students also see…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Anatomy, Biology, College Science

Martin, Marlene – Current: The Journal of Marine Education, 1997
Discusses the background of a specialty high school in Monterey Bay, California focusing on oceanography. Describes the collaborative research relationship that exists between the school and the scientific community. (DDR)
Descriptors: High Schools, Marine Biology, Oceanography, Outdoor Education

Heitzmann, Wm. Ray; Deans, Nora L. – Current: The Journal of Marine Education, 1997
Provides direction for writing for publication. Focuses on the process and on writing for this particular journal. Discusses query letters, colleague critique, and revisions. (DDR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Marine Biology, Outdoor Education, Problem Solving
Margulies, Nancy; Sylwester, Robert – 1998
This guide presents current scientific research on the process of human learning and stresses the importance of metacognition. Focus is placed on memory and learning with analogies to photography being employed to aid understanding. This guide also includes background information on human memory; a poster; instructions for the four short term…
Descriptors: Attention, Biology, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology