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Tholani Tshuma; Eunice Nyamupangedengu – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2025
This inquiry sought to investigate the opportunities and potential challenges of engaging in a self-study approach as a strategy for enhancing professional growth during my teaching of the topic of evolutionary genetics to 24 twelfth-grade students. I had, for many years, experienced pedagogical deficits and shortcomings when teaching evolutionary…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Science Teachers
Lucci, Karen; Cooper, Robert A. – American Biology Teacher, 2019
Many students have very robust misconceptions about natural selection, stemming from intuitive theories that form a child's earliest understandings of the natural world. For example, students often imagine that species evolve in response to environmental pressures that cause a need for change and that all individuals in the population…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Misconceptions, Evolution
Pinxten, Rianne; Vandervieren, Ellen; Janssenswillen, Paul – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Secondary school teaching of evolution through natural selection is very important because for most people, it is the only formal introduction to the scientific understanding of this theory. However, there are major concerns over its unsatisfactory teaching. In several European countries, including the Flanders region in Belgium, natural selection…
Descriptors: Evolution, Biology, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Peel, Amanda; Sadler, Troy D.; Friedrichsen, Patricia – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Computational thinking (CT) is a way of making sense of the natural world and problem solving with computer science concepts and skills. Although CT and science integrations have been called for in the literature, empirical investigations of such integrations are lacking. Prior work in natural selection education indicates students struggle to…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Evolution, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Rosenhouse, Jason – Science & Education, 2016
The teaching of evolution in American high schools has long been a source of controversy. The past decade has seen an important shift in the rhetoric of anti-evolutionists, toward arguments of a strongly mathematical character. These mathematical arguments, while different in their specifics, follow the same general program and rely on the same…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, High Schools
Schwendimann, Beat A.; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
Concept map activities often lack a subsequent revision step that facilitates knowledge integration. This study compares two collaborative critique activities using a Knowledge Integration Map (KIM), a form of concept map. Four classes of high school biology students (n?=?81) using an online inquiry-based learning unit on evolution were assigned…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Evolution, Science Education, Cooperative Learning
Stansfield, William D. – American Biology Teacher, 2013
Students should not graduate from high school without understanding that scientific debates are essential components of scientific methodology. This article presents a brief history of ongoing debates regarding the hypothesis that group selection is an evolutionary mechanism, and it serves as an example of the role that debates play in correcting…
Descriptors: Evolution, Scientific Methodology, Science Instruction, Science and Society
Nehm, Ross H.; Beggrow, Elizabeth P.; Opfer, John E.; Ha, Minsu – American Biology Teacher, 2012
Studies of students' thinking about natural selection have revealed that the scenarios in which students reason evoke different types, magnitudes, and arrangements of knowledge elements and misconceptions. Diagnostic tests are needed that probe students' thinking across a representative array of evolutionary contexts. The ACORNS is a diagnostic…
Descriptors: Evolution, Diagnostic Tests, Misconceptions, Inferences
Weiss, Matthias; Dreesmann, Daniel C. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Biological evolution still lacks representation in school, especially below high school level. In order to find new implications that could help achieve significant improvement in teaching evolution, twelve expert interviews with both renowned researchers and experienced science teachers were conducted. Results of the comparison between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evolution, Science Instruction, Scientists
Cook, Kristin; Buck, Gayle; Park Rogers, Meredith – Science Educator, 2012
This study investigates a project-based learning (PBL) approach to teaching evolution to inform efforts in teacher preparation. Data analysis of a secondary biology educator teaching evolution through a PBL approach illuminated: (1) active student voice, which allowed students to reflect on their positioning on evolution and consider multiple…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Evolution, Biology
Xiang, Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This is a collective case study seeking to develop detailed descriptions of how programming an agent-based simulation influences a group of 8th grade students' model-based inquiry (MBI) by examining students' agent-based programmable modeling (ABPM) processes and the learning outcomes. The context of the present study was a biology unit on…
Descriptors: Evolution, Instructional Design, Programming, Grade 8
Abrie, A. L. – Journal of Biological Education, 2010
This article investigates the attitudes of South African student teachers towards the theory of evolution and their willingness to teach it. The teaching of evolution has been excluded from the South African school curriculum for most of the 20th century. In 2008, Grade 12 learners were for the first time exposed to the concept of evolution in the…
Descriptors: Evolution, Biology, Misconceptions, Science Instruction
Williams, Jenni-Lea – Teaching Science, 2009
Educators are increasingly looking to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a means of enhancing student learning. The New Life Sciences (NLS) is a domain where complex and often abstract concepts must be communicated from a scientific perspective and understood by the student in terms of their underlying implications. This…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Misconceptions, Evolution
Baum, David A.; Offner, Susan – American Biology Teacher, 2008
Phylogenetic trees, which are depictions of the inferred evolutionary relationships among a set of species, now permeate almost all branches of biology and are appearing in increasing numbers in biology textbooks. While few state standards explicitly require knowledge of phylogenetics, most require some knowledge of evolutionary biology, and many…
Descriptors: Evolution, Textbooks, State Standards, Biology
Schrein, Caitlin M.; Lynch, John M.; Brem, Sarah K.; Marchant, Gary E.; Schedler, Karen K.; Spencer, Mark A.; Kazilek, Charles J. – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2009
This paper summarizes the content and results of a workshop about the teaching of evolution presented to public middle school and high school science teachers by individuals involved both in university education and the professional development of teachers. The goals of the workshop were to: (1) provide teachers with knowledge and resources to…
Descriptors: Workshops, College Science, High Schools, Middle Schools
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