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Direct linkMiranda M. Chen Musgrove; Melissa E. Ko; Jeffrey N. Schinske; Lisa A. Corwin – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Discipline-based education research (DBER) has experienced dramatic growth over recent years, but with growth comes concerns about whether DBER efforts accurately represent the education landscape. By many measures, DBER does not feature a representative range of institutional contexts or a diverse array of voices. Numerous professional…
Descriptors: Biology, Educational Research, Disproportionate Representation, Community Colleges
Eli Meir; Denise Pope; Joel K. Abraham; Kerry J. Kim; Susan Maruca; Jennifer Palacio – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Active learning approaches to biology teaching, including simulation-based activities, are known to enhance student learning, especially of higher-order skills; nonetheless, there are still many open questions about what features of an activity promote optimal learning. Here we designed three versions of a simulation-based tutorial called…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Thinking Skills, Feedback (Response), Active Learning
Elise M. Walck-Shannon; Shaina F. Rowell; April E. Bednarski; Ashton M. Barber; Grace J. Yuan; Regina F. Frey – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Students struggle to regulate their learning during independent study sessions. In this study, we ask whether an online behavioral intervention helped introductory students decrease distraction while studying. The intervention consisted of exam 1 reflection, exam 2 planning, and exam 2 reflection exercises. During planning, students formed a goal,…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Science Instruction, Attention
Baylee A. Edwards; Chloe Bowen; M. Elizabeth Barnes; Sara E. Brownell – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
The tension between religion and science as a long-standing barrier to science education has led researchers to explore ways of improving the experiences of Christian students in biology who can experience their Christianity as stigmatized in academic biology environments. As undergraduate science classes become student-centered, interactions…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Christianity, Religious Factors, Student Experience
Diane K. Angell; Sharon Lane-Getaz; Taylor Okonek; Stephanie Smith – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Preparing for exams in introductory biology classrooms is a complex metacognitive task. Focusing on lower achieving students (those with entering ACT scores below the median at our institution), we compared the effect of two different assignments distributed ahead of exams by dividing classes in half to receive either terms to define or open-ended…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Metacognition, Introductory Courses, Biology
Daniel L. Reinholz; Tessa C. Andrews – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Change theory has increasingly become an area of scholarship in STEM education. While this area has traditionally been a topic for organizational psychology, business management, communication studies, and higher education, STEM education researchers are increasingly aware of the need to use formal theories to guide change efforts and research.…
Descriptors: Change, STEM Education, Theories, Vocabulary
Freeman, Scott; Mukerji, Joya; Sievers, Matt; Beltran, Ismael Barreras; Dickinson, Katie; Dy, Grace E. C.; Gardiner, Amanda; Glenski, Elizabeth H.; Hill, Mariah J.; Kerr, Ben; Monet, Deja; Reemts, Connor; Theobald, Elli; Tran, Elisa T.; Velasco, Vicente; Wachtell, Lexi; Warfield, Liz – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
We developed labs on the evolution of antibiotic resistance to assess the costs and benefits of replacing traditional laboratory exercises in an introductory biology course for majors with a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE). To assess whether participating in the CURE imposed a cost in terms of exam performance, we implemented…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Course Descriptions
Clark, Noelle; Hsu, Jeremy L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Learning goals and objectives are a key part of instruction, informing curricular design, assessment, and learning. These goals and objectives are also applied at the programmatic level, with program learning outcomes (PLOs) providing insight into the skills that undergraduate biology programs intend for their students to master. PLOs are mandated…
Descriptors: Biology, Outcomes of Education, Undergraduate Students, Skill Development
Tise, Joseph C.; Sperling, Rayne A.; Dann, Michael S.; Young, Taylor M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Analogical reasoning is an important type of cognition often used by experts across domains. Little research, however, has investigated how generating analogies can support college students' self-regulated learning (SRL) of biology. This study therefore evaluated a contextualized cognitive learning strategy intervention designed to teach students…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Learning Strategies, Biology, Science Instruction
Esquibel, Joseph; Rook, Deborah L.; LoRe, Sondra M.; Starnes, John H.; Miller, Jillian M.; Buntz, Jennifer G.; Hugo, Alys; Nieuwsma, Christianne B.; Seitz, Heather; Bissell, Ahrash; Gross, Louis; Kiser, Stacey; Lenhart, Suzanne; Mills, Michael A.; Neuhauser, Claudia; Corriette, Irene; Prescott, Sarah; Jenkins, Kristin P.; Karpakakunjaram, Vedham – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Mastery of quantitative skills is increasingly critical for student success in life sciences, but few curricula adequately incorporate quantitative skills. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) is designed to address this need by building a grassroots consortium of community college faculty to (1) engage in interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, College Science, Community Colleges
Aikens, Melissa L.; Kulacki, Alexander R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Quantitative skills are a critical competency for undergraduates pursuing life science careers. To help students develop these skills, it is important to build their self-efficacy for quantitative tasks, as this ultimately affects their achievement. Collaborative learning can benefit self-efficacy, but it is unclear what experiences during…
Descriptors: Identification, Cooperative Learning, Group Experience, Self Efficacy
Uminski, Crystal; Hubbard, Joanna K.; Couch, Brian A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Biology instructors use concept assessments in their courses to gauge student understanding of important disciplinary ideas. Instructors can choose to administer concept assessments based on participation (i.e., lower stakes) or the correctness of responses (i.e., higher stakes), and students can complete the assessment in an in-class or…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Tests, High Stakes Tests, Scores
Doherty, Jennifer H.; Scott, Emily E.; Cerchiara, Jack A.; Jescovitch, Lauren N.; McFarland, Jenny L.; Haudek, Kevin C.; Wenderoth, Mary Pat – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Pressure gradients serve as the key driving force for the bulk flow of fluids in biology (e.g., blood, air, phloem sap). However, students often struggle to understand the mechanism that causes these fluids to flow. To investigate student reasoning about bulk flow, we collected students' written responses to assessment items and interviewed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Thinking Skills, Science Process Skills, Scientific Concepts
Beatty, Abby E.; Driessen, Emily P.; Clark, Amanda D.; Costello, Robin A.; Ewell, Sharday; Fagbodun, Sheritta; Klabacka, Randy L.; Lamb, Todd; Mulligan, Kimberly; Henning, Jeremiah A.; Ballen, Cissy J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Traditional biology curricula depict science as an objective field, overlooking the important influence that human values and biases have on what is studied and who can be a scientist. We can work to address this shortcoming by incorporating "ideological awareness" into the curriculum, which is an understanding of biases, stereotypes,…
Descriptors: Biology, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Terrell R. Morton; Wesley Agee; Kilan C. Ashad-Bishop; Lori D. Banks; Zanethia Choice Barnett; Imari D. Bramlett; Briana Brown; Walter Gassmann; Korie Grayson; Gail P. Hollowell; Ruth Kaggwa; Gaurav S. Kandlikar; Marshaun Love; Whitney N. McCoy; Mark A. Melton; Monica L. Miles; Catherine L. Quinlan; ReAnna S. Roby; Checo J. Rorie; Tatiane Russo-Tait; Ashlyn M. Wardin; Michele R. Williams; Ashley N. Woodson – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to present an argument for why there is a need to re-envision the underlying culture of undergraduate biology education to ensure the success, retention, and matriculation of Black students. The basis of this argument is the continued noted challenges with retaining Black students in the biological sciences coupled…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Education, Undergraduate Students, African American Students
