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Gloria Rodríguez-Loinaz; Igone Palacios-Agundez – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Ecosystem services (ES) are the benefits people obtain from nature contributing to our well-being. Although this concept has high didactic potential, its presence in education literature is scarce. This article presents the ES framework as a new teaching principle that, taught together with the biodiversity concept, may help students develop…
Descriptors: Ecology, Persuasive Discourse, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development
Janssen, Rianne; Crauwels, Marion – Journal of Biological Education, 2011
A large-scale paper-and-pencil assessment of the attainment targets of environmental studies with a focus on the subject area nature was held in primary education in Flanders (Belgium). The tests on different subfields of nature, i.e. the human body, healthcare, organisms, ecosystems, environmental care and non-living nature, were administered to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Primary Education, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness
van Lieshout, Emile; Dawson, Vaille – Journal of Biological Education, 2016
Modern biotechnology has a large and rapidly increasing impact on society. New advances in genetics, stem cells and other areas hold great potential for human health but also presenting socioscientific issues that commonly divide public opinion. While knowledge is necessary to develop informed opinions about biotechnology, they may also be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Biotechnology, High School Students
Uitto, Anna; Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari; Meisalo, Veijo – Journal of Biological Education, 2006
Interest in biology and the out-of-school experiences of Finnish secondary school pupils (n = 3626, median age 15) were surveyed in the spring of 2003 using the international ROSE questionnaire. Likert-scaled items were categorised with an explorative factor analysis. The scores of eight interest-context factors and seven out-of-school experience…
Descriptors: Age, Informal Education, Health Education, Gender Differences
van Eijck, Michiel; Goedhart, Martin; Ellermeijer, Ton – Journal of Biological Education, 2005
A single heartbeat is a complicated process. In Dutch upper secondary biology textbooks this process is illustrated by the classical Wiggers diagram, which usually shows different heart-related quantities, like voltage (ECG), blood pressure, and the heart sounds. It may help students to understand the nature of the Wiggers diagram if they perform…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Laboratories, Computers, Biology