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Susan Hanisch; Dustin Eirdosh – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Many evolutionary anthropologists view cooperation as core to the evolutionary success of our species. Concurrently, many sustainability scientists view cooperation as core to the future sustainable development of our species. When it comes to biology education, however, it is unclear how or if students are being engaged in these scientific…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Evolution, Biology, High Schools
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
Simard, Catherine – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
The historical dimension of biology attests to the various conceptions of living organisms that have governed the construction of scientific knowledge over time, some of which still persist today. The present study aimed to identify and characterise the various conceptions of living organisms held by future teachers and biologists and the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Biology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Brownlee, Kristi; Parsley, Kathryn M.; Sabel, Jaime L. – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Plant awareness disparity (PAD, formerly plant blindness) is the tendency not to notice plants in one's environment, which leads to the perspective that plants are unimportant. In this paper, we explore how plants and animals are represented in introductory biology textbooks to determine if these texts are contributing to PAD in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Biology, Science Instruction, Textbook Content
Moore-Anderson, Christian – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
In the context of England, secondary biology education is dominated by sub-organismal systems, such as physiology, often to the detriment of evolution & ecology and impeding an integrated understanding of biology. This paper proposes a framework that teachers could use to help them consider how the learning of physiological and developmental…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods, Biology, Science Instruction
de Moura Silva, Gabriel; Lahr, Daniel J. G.; Silva, Rosana Louro Ferreira – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
In this article, we present how educational resources for zoology designed by undergraduate students help to propose means of action for teaching diversity and animal evolution in basic education. We realised that activities of creation and analysis of educational resources, in the context of didactic planning, have the potential to approximate…
Descriptors: Zoology, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Evolution
Nesimyan -- Agadi, Dina; Ben Zvi Assaraf, Orit – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
The theory of evolution can be a useful basis for developing students' understanding of ecology. Our study used concept maps to examine the development of sixth-grade students' understanding of the Antarctic ecosystem following several evolution 'Science Days' conducted at 'Nature Campus' -- an informal learning environment comprised of a natural…
Descriptors: Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Grade 6
Carolina Parraguez; Paola Núñez; Dirk Krüger; Hernán Cofré – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Although much research exists of students' alternative conceptions about evolution and natural selection, the way in which these vary in time and how scientific explanations change during instruction remains to be described and understood. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to characterise the nature of the change in student…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 9, Evolution, Student Attitudes
Araújo, Leonardo Augusto Luvison – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
The central importance of evolution to all biological sciences is recognised by many authors. Despite this scientific consensus, the theory of evolution is commonly presented as one discrete topic among many in the biology curriculum. Possible reasons for this scenario include discomfort with the content, ideological opposition and teachers'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Biology, Science Instruction, Evolution
Frejd, Johanna; Stolpe, Karin; Hultén, Magnus; Schönborn, Konrad J. – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
Whereas previous studies show that children are able to make meaning about evolutionary concepts within read-aloud contexts, little is known about how semiotic resources and interaction influence children's meaning making about evolution. This study investigates children's meaning making about evolutionary concepts during a modelling activity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Task Analysis, Concept Formation
Seeing the Trees: What Urban Middle School Students Notice about the Street Trees That Surround Them
Wyner, Yael; Doherty, Jennifer H. – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
Even highly urban environments are settings for outdoor learning of local biodiversity, for they contain easily accessible street tree diversity that students walk pass daily. This study uses pre/post assessments and a tree observation curriculum grounded in scientific observation practice to understand the everyday and scientific tree observation…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Urban Environment, Public Schools
Yesilyurt, Ezgi; Oztekin, Ceren; Cakiroglu, Jale; Deniz, Hasan – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore science teachers' conceptions about micro-and macro-evolutionary processes. In this study, a case study was employed to compare and contrast novice and experienced middle school science teachers' evolution conceptions. The data were collected using four micro-and macro-evolutionary scenarios alongside…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Females, Middle School Teachers
Ageitos, Noa; Puig, Blanca – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
Though argumentation is a key component of scientific knowledge construction practices, it rarely occurs in classrooms worldwide. Moreover, related literature in the context of genetics and evolution learning primarily addresses them separately. In contrast, this paper is part of broader research on genetics and evolution instruction taught…
Descriptors: Diseases, Genetics, Science Instruction, Biology
Cheplick, G. P. – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
A complex terminology developed around the evolutionary concept of adaptation. One definition of adaptation is synonymous with adaptive evolution and denotes a process of population change driven by natural selection resulting in individuals better able to survive and reproduce in a particular environment (compared to the population before the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Genetics