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Annika Thyberg; Konrad Schönborn; Niklas Gericke – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to investigate students' meaning-making of multiple visual representations of epigenetics at different levels of biological organisation, and to discern what visual aspects of the multiple visual representations might influence students' reasoning. Adopting an exploratory approach, we analysed how students made meaning of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Science Education, Genetics
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Caryn Babaian; Sudhir Kumar – American Biology Teacher, 2024
When students think of evolution, they might imagine T. rex, or perhaps an abiotic scene of sizzling electrical storms and harsh reducing atmospheres, an Earth that looks like a lunar landscape. Natural selection automatically elicits responses that include "survival of the fittest," and "descent with modification," and with…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Education, Cancer, Teaching Methods
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Rheanna E. Walther; Michael Hrabak; Douglas A. Bernstein – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
Molecular biology, broadly defined as the investigation of complex biomolecules in the laboratory, is a rapidly advancing field and as such the technologies available to investigators are constantly evolving. This constant advancement has obvious advantages because it allows students and researchers to perform more complex experiments in shorter…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Molecular Biology, Science Laboratories, Genetics
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Flavio Lozano-Isla; Elizabeth Heros-Aguilar; Andres Casas-Diaz – Discover Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges for both students and educators, particularly because of the virtualization of classes and the consequent lack of practical sessions following the closure of laboratories and experimental fields in universities. The absence of interaction among students and practical classes led to a…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Clubs, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Nazli Rüya Taskin Bedizel; Nursen Azizoglu – Journal of Science Learning, 2023
The present study has two main goals. First, it aims to examine the analogies an instructor uses about "DNA conservation across generations" in a university-level General Biology course. Second, it aims to examine the analogies used in those lessons according to Thiele and Treagust's framework. A qualitative case study design is adopted…
Descriptors: Science Education, Genetics, Biology, College Science
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Musa Mohammed Sulaiman; Ganiyu Bello; Isaac Olakanmi Abimbola – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
This research explored the impact of analogies and metaphors on the academic performance of senior school students in genetics within Ilorin, Nigeria. Three research questions and corresponding hypotheses were formulated and tested at a significance level of 0.05. A quasi-experimental design was used, involving 117 senior secondary school…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, High School Seniors
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Bapty, Hannah – Science & Education, 2023
It is 157 years since Mendel presented his results on hybridisation in peas to the Brünn Society for Natural Science. The discipline of genetics has dramatically changed since then, with technological advancements revealing multifactorial causation and trait variability. Whilst none of this complexity featured in the discovery of classical…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Science Education, Genetics, Science Instruction
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Melloy, Patricia G.; Chiswell, Brian; Peterson, Celeste – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Cancer databases collect original cancer studies and patient clinical information into one site that allows for global analysis. While many courses focus on cancer, few utilize these powerful cancer databases. Our goal was to create a lab experience in which students could explore original cancer study databases, looking at the expression and…
Descriptors: Cancer, Databases, Patients, Incidence
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Mbano, Nellie M.; Chitundu, Pascal A.; Nampota, Dorothy C. – Science Education International, 2023
Understanding genetics, an important topic in the study of biology, is critical for scientific literacy in agriculture, health, and forensic investigations. However, it has been observed that teachers find genetics difficult to teach and pupils do not perform well in it. Teachers can use expository teaching or active learning methods, but the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Instruction, Genetics
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Ying-Chih Chen; Jongchan Park; Jamie G. Rapkiewcz – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Productive struggle is a process in which students expend effort to grapple with perplexing problems and make sense of something that is not immediately apparent and beyond their current level of understanding and capacity. The experience encourages students to reflect on and restructure their existing knowledge toward a new understanding of…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Biology, Science Education, Teaching Methods
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Kenneth Silseth; Anniken Furberg – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Previous studies have shown both benefits and challenges of group work and whole-class activities in educational settings. One overall finding in the existing literature is that it is challenging for teachers to facilitate whole-class conversations that realise the rich potential of student discussions and undertakings during group work. This…
Descriptors: Science Education, Class Activities, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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Quainoo, Benedicta Abeka; Otami, Charles Deodat; Owusu, Kofi Acheaw – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Molecular genetics, a key concept in biology, is found to be very difficult for students at the senior high school level. A situation largely blamed on teachers' instructional approaches. Since the Relating, Experiencing, Applying, Cooperating and Transferring (REACT) strategy is reported to be an effective pedagogical approach for improving…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, High School Students, Academic Achievement, Genetics
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Mowrer, Emily R.; Potratz, Jeffrey P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Categorizing the various levels of protein and nucleic acid structures is a relatively straightforward concept students understand quickly when shown representative structural images. However, keeping in mind the idea of primary, secondary, and tertiary structure proves more difficult when students are in the laboratory setting simply looking at a…
Descriptors: Genetics, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Laboratory Experiments
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Chaonan Liu; Dayna L. Dreger; Shiyao Liu; Ala Samarapungavan; Stephanie M. Gardner; Kari L. Clase; Nancy Pelaez – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Recent emphasis on learning biology through scientific investigations has focused instruction on understanding and using scientific evidence. To unpack the complexities of evidentiary reasoning, here we present a novel laboratory investigation for teaching the Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) in an introductory biology laboratory course that was…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Process Skills
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Muammer Çalik; Antuni Wiyarsi – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Given little research using meta-analysis for SSI-based interventions and their limitations (e.g. data selection and analysis processes), further study is needed to validate previous findings and provide a broader sense of the effectiveness of SSI-based interventions in promoting scientific literacy. Therefore, this study aimed to…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Science and Society, Science Curriculum, Science Education
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