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Agustín Sanguinetti; Silvina M. Rosa; Ana B. Menéndez – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Photosynthesis is the predominant metabolic process for energy obtention in plants. Here we describe a case study where a set of anatomical, biochemical, and molecular characters are used to reconstruct the evolution of the C[subscript 4] photosynthetic pathway, within the evolutionary framework provided by the genus "Flaveria." Our main…
Descriptors: Botany, Biology, Science Instruction, Seminars
Berrit K. Czinczel; Daniela Fiedler; Ute Harms – American Biology Teacher, 2025
Evolution is the central concept of biology and key to a comprehensive understanding of any complex biological interaction. It has proven to be a particularly difficult subject for both teachers and students. Hybrid teaching environments have the potential to support students in learning about complex topics and simultaneously enable researchers…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Instruction, Biology, Educational Technology
Hsin-Chueh Chen; Mei-Chun Lin; Chun-Yen Chang – Science & Education, 2025
Multicultural science education advocates that science education should pay attention to the uniqueness of students from different backgrounds. In developing instructional strategies, educators should respect students' differences according to their culture. However, In Taiwan, while Darwin's theory of evolution is taught in high school biology,…
Descriptors: Christianity, World Views, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Moore-Anderson, Christian – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
In the context of England, secondary biology education is dominated by sub-organismal systems, such as physiology, often to the detriment of evolution & ecology and impeding an integrated understanding of biology. This paper proposes a framework that teachers could use to help them consider how the learning of physiological and developmental…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods, Biology, Science Instruction
Carolina Parraguez; Paola Núñez; Dirk Krüger; Hernán Cofré – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Although much research exists of students' alternative conceptions about evolution and natural selection, the way in which these vary in time and how scientific explanations change during instruction remains to be described and understood. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to characterise the nature of the change in student…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 9, Evolution, Student Attitudes
Sá-Pinto, Xana; Pessoa, Patrícia; Pinto, Alexandre; Cardia, Pedro – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
Several researchers and scientific institutions argue that evolution should be explored from the first school years. However, few studies have analysed primary school students' understanding of evolutionary processes or evaluated the impact of educational activities on such knowledge. The available data: (1) suggest that primary school students…
Descriptors: Evolution, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Fiedler, Daniela; Moormann, Alexandra; Beniermann, Anna – Science Education, 2024
Evolution understanding is often positively connected with magnitudes of evolution acceptance, whereas religiosity mostly interferes negatively. However, comparisons between studies and countries must be treated cautiously due to the diversity of used instruments and samples. This study aims to generate new evidence concerning the interplay of…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Biology, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students
Fayadh Hamed Alanazi; Amani Khalaf. H. Alghamdi – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This study explored the usefulness of the open dialogue strategy to help Saudi Arabian primary teachers teach, and fourth-grade students learn, the key biological concept of classification, which is a significant challenge for students to grasp, especially the concept of humans versus animals. The convenience sample comprised N = 84 Grade four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Preston, Christine; Johnstone, John – Teaching Science, 2022
In this article, we present some practical tips primary teachers might use to help their students understand adaptations. We also aim to raise awareness of the learning progression towards understanding one of the big ideas of science. A key message is the role that language plays in presenting scientifically accurate ideas about adaptations.
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction, Language Usage
Yun-Ping Ge; Wen-Jin Yang; Hak-Ping Tam – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
This study based on cognitive and social semiotic theories investigates whether the influence of specific features of instructional representation from adolescent textbook images could last until adulthood in certain cultures. Two cultural groups, Indonesian (n = 61) and Taiwanese (n = 60) college students, were recruited from a public Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Biology, Science Instruction, Evolution
Merav Siani; Anat Yarden – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2024
Evolution is a fundamental part of biology and thus it is essential that biology preservice teachers understand and accept it. The relationship between knowledge and acceptance of evolution, and specifically human evolution, has not been fully investigated in Israel. We sought to learn about that relationship amongst Israeli Jewish religious…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Jörgen Ingemar Stenlund; Lena Anna Elisabet Tibell; Konrad Janek Schönborn – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Despite the importance of emotions in science education, research?on affect remains sparse. A promising direction is to explore the role of immersive visualisation in evoking affective responses. We investigate whether touch-based zooming interaction with a tabletop visualisation of the tree of life evokes various affective responses,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Evolution, Science Instruction
Corrochano, Diego; Gómez-Gonçalves, Alejandro – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study uses a one-group pre-test and post-test design to describe the mental models of geologic time held by a group of Spanish pre-service primary teachers, before and after an instructional intervention that introduced the work with different timescales. The questionnaire was given before instruction and five weeks after it. It consists of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Schemata (Cognition), Scientific Concepts
Gülüzar Eymur; Funda Yesildag Hasançebi; Pinar Seda Çetin – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The purpose of the present study was to reveal the effectiveness of the Nature of Science (NOS) embedded in Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) instructional method on pre-service science teachers' (PSTs) content knowledge and self-efficacy in evolution theory. The study was a mixed-method study in which the qualitative data collection and analysis was…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Intervention, Misconceptions
Archila, Pablo Antonio; Molina, Jorge; de Mejía, Anne-Marie Truscott – Research in Science Education, 2020
Contrary to the situation at primary, middle, and secondary school levels, university science courses provide students with very few opportunities to reflect upon the nature of science (NOS). The first goal of this study was to provide evidence that the co-construction of evolutionary trees, an important component of university biology education,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles