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Pedrera, Oier; Ortega-Lasuen, Unai; Ruiz-González, Aritz; Díez, José Ramón; Barrutia, Oihana – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Although citizenship's literacy in biodiversity is a promising way of confronting its loss, the unawareness about this topic is generalised particularly regarding plants. The latter phenomenon, named Plant Blindness (PB), not only refers to the inability to notice and identify the surrounding plants, but also to the lack of knowledge about the…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Biodiversity, Secondary School Students, Scientific Concepts
Caño, Lidia; Ormazabal, Unai – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Understanding natural selection requires mentally linking various key concepts and processes. Many students find it difficult to construct scientific explanations about natural selection and might display misconceptions. Our study aimed to investigate the understanding of natural selection and the existence of teleological or other misconceptions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Scientific Concepts, Evolution
Díaz-Navarro, Sonia; Sánchez De La Parra-Pérez, Santiago – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
In recent decades, the application and adaptation of new technologies have gradually become invaluable in education. When the students are visually impaired, the use of these technologies becomes even more valuable. In this line, a theoretical-practical workshop on human evolution was carried out with 25 students from the Spanish National…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Anatomy, Evolution, Science Education
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
Robredo, Beatriz; Fernández-Fernández, Rosa; Torres, Carmen – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Research and education are two areas often compartmentalised or separated by an abyss, linked in this study by a service-learning methodology, the Small World Initiative project. The programme instruction starts at the university, reaches secondary school and returns to university to complete the research, challenging young students to discover…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Genetics
Jiménez, Isabel; Amat, Arnau; Codony, Lídia – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study examines the development of the concept of the ecological niche among 10-11-year-old students and their ability to use this concept to give their opinions on the socially relevant and controversial possibility that wolf populations might be established in the mountains surrounding the school. A total of 21 elementary school students…
Descriptors: Animals, Biology, Science Instruction, Wildlife
Serrano-Perez, J. J.; González-García, L.; Flacco, N.; Taberner-Cortés, A.; García-Arnandis, I.; Pérez-López, G.; Pellín-Carcelén, A.; Romá-Mateo, C. – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Historically, traditional laboratory experiments have been given a central and distinctive role in science education. However, virtual laboratories have received considerable attention over the past several years in different areas of knowledge. The main aim of this study is to analyse the impact of the use of both traditional and virtual…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, Science Laboratories, College Students, Student Motivation
José Domingo Villarroel; Maria Merino; Alvaro Antón – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Previous research indicates that young children, as young as preschoolers, spontaneously draw dihedral and cyclic symmetries in their representations of the natural world. This is an intriguing find because at this age children have barely had their first contact with formal geometry and, therefore, one would not expect to find a use of symmetries…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Art, Geometric Concepts, Skill Development
Prado, Borja Gómez; Puig, Blanca; Evagorou, María – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
This paper addresses an explorative case study on Spanish primary pre-service teachers' (PSTs) emotions about, and their interest in, insects. The study is part of a teachers' training programme on insects and the problem of the decline in pollinators conducted at the University of Santiago de Compostela, using scientific practice-based learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Correlation, Case Studies
Cascarosa, Esther; Mazas, Beatriz; Mateo, Ester – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
This article presents research designed along one scholar course with first-year pre-schoolers in Spain. A coherent sequence of learning activities, that combined classroom work with working outside the classroom (in the school garden), was designed in order to analyse if the first-year-preschool children were able to apply scientific tools,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Science Education
Esteve, P.; Jaén, M.; Banos-González, I. – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
This study explores the progression in the perceptions that pre-service primary teachers have about the interdependence of people and invertebrate organisms, after implementing an inquiry proposal. By means of an inductive analysis, the reports made by the pre-service teachers were assessed and grouped into four models, according to the level of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Correlation
Are Plants Living Beings? Biases in the Interpretation of Landscape Features by Pre-Service Teachers
Torres-Porras, Jerónimo; Alcántara-Manzanares, Jorge – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
Interpreting the landscape that surrounds us is somewhat personal. However, it is necessary to explore the interpretation made by future teachers so that we can reflect on their observations. This study collected data from five academic years of undergraduates in Early Childhood Education (N = 421), who were asked to fill out a questionnaire with…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Scientific Concepts, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Barrutia, Oihana; Díez, José Ramón – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
Plant nutrition is a complex subject at any educational level therefore, identification of student's ideas regarding this scientific concept is important in order to define the best instructional learning method. In this study, we conduct a cross-age comparison of the conceptual understanding of compulsory students and prospective elementary…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers
Villanueva, Xabier; Villarroel, José Domingo; Antón, Alvaro – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
This study examines the drawings that 178 young children carried out on two different occasions separated by a period of one year to explain their understanding of the plant world. The pictorial content of the drawings was analysed in accordance to the categories that previous research has proved to be useful when it comes to gaining an insight…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Early Childhood Education, Freehand Drawing, Concept Formation
Cascarosa, Esther; Mazas, Beatriz; Peña, Begoña Martínez; Quílez, María José Gil – Journal of Biological Education, 2020
The present work was carried out with students of compulsory secondary education. The research was prompted by the idea that scientific vocation among young people is shrinking and that this has a significant impact on our society. Consequently, a science project based on the students' interests was proposed. They were able to work as a single…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Animals, Biology, Secondary School Students