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Katarina B. Putica – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
As detection and subsequent remediation of misconceptions developed within high-school organic chemistry courses in regard to various classes of organic compounds are a prerequisite for meaningful learning of more advanced organic chemistry content, this study sought to identify high-school students' misconceptions about alcohols and carbonyl…
Descriptors: High School Students, Barriers, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Oluwatobi Odeleye; Parsa N. Lessani; Diya Tang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
General chemistry is a gateway course that students from several STEM-related majors take at the beginning of their college careers. Faced with high attrition rates of students in STEM fields and even higher rates for groups minoritized due to gender and ethnicity/race, this study explored how a general chemistry course influenced students'…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes, Student Interests
Xinliang Zhu; Ting Tang – Cogent Education, 2024
In recent years, single-subject experimental courses have not been able to meet the demands of the comprehensive development of life sciences. This study is based on two fundamental disciplines, molecular biology and metabolomics, with the analysis and intervention of tumor-related genes as the starting point. A comprehensive experimental course…
Descriptors: Cancer, Molecular Biology, Scientific Concepts, Intervention
Lisa A. Bonner; Jalisa H. Ferguson – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Condensed courses are commonly used across academia as a means for students to catch up or get ahead of their curriculum. Instructors may be hesitant to teach such courses due to concerns about limited knowledge retention and reduced academic rigor. We sought to determine if there are any differences in changes of student attitudes before and…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Barriers, Academic Standards
Andrea A. Perla; Sara Hollar; Katy Muzikar; Jane M. Liu – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The use of primary literature can be an effective way to expose students to the scientific research process. At the same time, primary literature can be intimidating to many students, particularly those with limited exposure to science research. The CREATE (consider, read, elucidate hypotheses, analyze and interpret the data, and think of the next…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Scientific Research, Self Esteem
Garza, Nicholas F.; Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Solaire A.; Shultz, Ginger V.; Zimmerman, Steven C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Organic chemistry courses enroll students from many majors with diverse interests. Although instructors may strive to appeal to these interests by relating course content to real life, it is challenging to intrinsically appeal to students at the personal level, particularly in high enrollment courses like organic chemistry. When students identify…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Course Content, Teaching Methods
Rachel Leigh Salter Harding – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Evolution is central to biology education and yet, it is often one of the most misunderstood and controversial topics that biology educators must teach. Research spanning the last four decades has shown that students continue to struggle, even with direct instruction, to understand the process of evolution by natural selection. In my first…
Descriptors: Evolution, Concept Formation, STEM Education, Biology
Joseph, Shanelle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Superfund Sites and other harmful environmental conditions disproportionately affect urban America and Black communities. Historically, many affected citizens were unaware of these conditions until the environmental justice movement. Due to insufficient opportunities to develop scientific literacy, many members of the community remain unaware of…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Science Instruction, Urban Areas, Pollution
Rahmoeller, Margaret; Steinweg, J. Megan – PRIMUS, 2022
We explored the impact a new quantitative biology course for biology majors had on their ability and confidence to utilize hypothesis testing. Students currently in the quantitative biology course and the first cohort of students who took the course (currently seniors) were surveyed on ability and confidence regarding four types of hypothesis…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Self Esteem, Student Attitudes
Melanie Schroer – HAPS Educator, 2024
Student-generated videos (SGVs) are gaining popularity and have been increasingly incorporated into undergraduate curricula in many disciplines. Through the creation of their own educational digital videos, students learn course content and transferrable skills. However, the use of SGVs in anatomy and physiology (A&P) is virtually…
Descriptors: Physiology, Video Technology, Science Instruction, Student Developed Materials
Tim Archie; Sarah B. Wise; Javier Robalino; Marjee Chmiel; Sandra Laursen – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) have been shown to benefit students in undergraduate biology, but little is known about the degree to which community college (CC) biology instructors use EBIPs or the barriers they encounter. We surveyed CC biology instructors to characterize how they use EBIPs, their capacity to use EBIPs, and…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods, Community Colleges, Biology
Green, Kathryn; Borgerding, Lisa – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2022
This study explores the beliefs of non-science majors in an undergraduate biology classroom as part of a larger study on evolution education. Groups of students (n=12) were given fourteen questions, some potentially controversial and some non-controversial, and asked to create categories based on what type of authority students would turn to as a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Nonmajors
Turk, Judith K. – Natural Sciences Education, 2023
Literature circles are student-led, small-group discussions that promote active learning and engagement with literary texts. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of literature circles on student engagement and learning outcomes in a pedology course. For various reading assignments throughout the semester, students either…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Reading Assignments, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
García Fernández, Beatriz; Ruiz-Gallardo, José-Reyes – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study compares anatomy diagram production skills as a part of Visual Literacy competence in Biology Education in schoolchildren (n = 254) and pre-service teachers (n = 282). Both groups produced cross-sectional anatomy diagrams from knowledge acquired using frontal views and answered a questionnaire on their difficulties with the exercise.…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Visual Literacy, Biology, Anatomy
Javier Rodriguez-Falces – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
A central topic in Bioelectricity is the generation of the extracellular potential that results from the propagation of a transmembrane action potential along the muscle fiber. However, the way in which the extracellular potential is determined by the propagating action potential is difficult to describe, conceptualize, and visualize. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Instruction, Science Tests, Student Attitudes