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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
Morin-Chassé, Alexandre – Science & Education, 2020
The paper presents an experimental study that examines the conditions required for news about behavioral genetics to activate genetic essentialism beliefs. Nine hundred sixty-five adults living in the USA were randomly assigned to read either a control news article or one of the three versions of a news story about behavioral genetics. The…
Descriptors: Genetics, Behavior Development, Beliefs, News Reporting
Donovan, Brian M.; Weindling, Monica; Lee, Dennis M. – Science & Education, 2020
Genetic essentialism of race is the belief that racial groups have different underlying genetic essences which cause them to differ physically, cognitively, or behaviorally. Apparently, no published studies have explored if belief in genetic essentialism of race among adolescents differs after many weeks of formal instruction about different…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Genetics, Science Curriculum, Race
Tornabene, Robyn E.; Sbeglia, Gena C.; Nehm, Ross H. – Science & Education, 2020
Belief in genetic determinism (BGD) has been associated with increased social stereotyping and prejudicial views and consequently is of significant concern to science educators. The Public Understanding and Attitudes towards Genetics and Genomics (PUGGS) instrument was developed to measure relationships among BGD, genetics knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Genetics, Psychometrics, Attitude Measures
Stuhlsatz, Molly A. M.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Donovan, Brian M. – Science & Education, 2020
Conflation of sex and gender is implicated in the development of essentialist thinking, which has been linked to the justification of systems of prejudice in modern society. This exploratory study presents findings from a person randomized control trial conducted with 460 students in 8th-10th grade that investigated the extent to which students…
Descriptors: Sex, Gender Issues, Gender Bias, Grade 8
Hubbard, Amelia R.; Monnig, Laurel A. – Science & Education, 2020
Exposure to information about genetics is at an all-time high, while a full understanding of the biocultural complexity of human difference is low. This paper demonstrates the value of an "anthropological approach" to enhance genetics education in biology, anthropology, and other related disciplines, when teaching about human differences…
Descriptors: Anthropology, College Science, Science Instruction, Genetics
Gericke, Niklas; Carver, Rebecca; Castéra, Jérémy; Evangelista, Neima Alice Menezes; Marre, Claire Coiffard; El-Hani, Charbel N. – Science & Education, 2017
Genetic determinism can be described as the attribution of the formation of traits to genes, where genes are ascribed more causal power than what scientific consensus suggests. Belief in genetic determinism is an educational problem because it contradicts scientific knowledge, and is a societal problem because it has the potential to foster…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Genetics, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy
Boerwinkel, Dirk Jan; Yarden, Anat; Waarlo, Arend Jan – Science & Education, 2017
To determine what knowledge of genetics is needed for decision-making on genetic-related issues, a consensus-reaching approach was used. An international group of 57 experts, involved in teaching, studying, or developing genetic education and communication or working with genetic applications in medicine, agriculture, or forensics, answered the…
Descriptors: Genetics, Decision Making, Expertise, Knowledge Level
Duncan, Ravit Golan; Choi, Jinnie; Castro-Faix, Moraima; Cavera, Veronica L. – Science & Education, 2017
Learning progressions (LPs) are hypothetical models of how learning in a domain develops over time with appropriate instruction. In the domain of genetics, there are two independently developed alternative LPs. The main difference between the two progressions hinges on their assumptions regarding the accessibility of classical (Mendelian) versus…
Descriptors: Genetics, Learning Processes, Sequential Learning, Sequential Approach
Jamieson, Annie; Radick, Gregory – Science & Education, 2017
Twenty-first-century biology rejects genetic determinism, yet an exaggerated view of the power of genes in the making of bodies and minds remains a problem. What accounts for such tenacity? This article reports an exploratory study suggesting that the common reliance on Mendelian examples and concepts at the start of teaching in basic genetics is…
Descriptors: Genetics, Scientific Concepts, Science Curriculum, Undergraduate Students
Puig, Blanca; Ageitos, Noa; Jiménez-Aleixandre, María Pilar – Science & Education, 2017
There is emerging interest on the interactions between modelling and argumentation in specific contexts, such as genetics learning. It has been suggested that modelling might help students understand and argue on genetics. We propose modelling gene expression as a way to learn molecular genetics and diseases with a genetic component. The study is…
Descriptors: Science Education, Genetics, Teaching Methods, Diseases
Willinsky, John – Science & Education, 2020
Following on earlier examinations of biology high school textbooks' handling of race, this study examines eleven biology textbooks, intended for US high school use and published between 2014 and 2019. It offers a close reading of these textbooks' treatment of four topics that have been associated with race: genetic disorders, human origins, skin…
Descriptors: High School Students, Textbook Bias, Racial Bias, Science Education
Ageitos, Noa; Puig, Blanca; Colucci-Gray, Laura – Science & Education, 2019
This article focuses on students' discursive moves and reasoning practices while engaged in a task that requires making explanatory links between sickle cell disease and malaria. Both diseases pertain to key areas of the biology curriculum, namely, genetic variability and natural selection, and are connected to the theory of evolution of living…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Evolution, Thinking Skills, Diseases
Haskel-Ittah, Michal; Yarden, Anat – Science & Education, 2017
Previous studies have shown that students often ignore molecular mechanisms when describing genetic phenomena. Specifically, students tend to directly link genes to their encoded traits, ignoring the role of proteins as mediators in this process. We tested the ability of 10th grade students to connect genes to traits through proteins, using…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Genetics, Grade 10, Secondary School Science
Anisa; Widodo, Ari; Riandi; Muslim – Science & Education, 2023
The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for analyzing classroom argumentation that includes a process of rebutting. A most commonly used framework to analyze argument in science education is Toulmin's Argumentation Pattern. It is useful for analyzing argumentation but it cannot represent the complexity of students' rebuttals during…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 12, Science Education, Persuasive Discourse