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Juli D. Uhl; Megan Shiroda; Kevin C. Haudek – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
National calls to improve science education include focusing on scientific practices coupled with learning disciplinary core ideas. Among the practices is constructing explanations. In the field of cellular and molecular biology, explanations typically include a mechanism and can be used to make predictions about phenomena. In this work, we…
Descriptors: Molecular Biology, Cytology, Genetics, Scientific Concepts
Leonie I. Johann; Fredrik K. H. Rusk; Michael J. Reiss; Jorge Groß – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This study reports on the theoretical- and empirical-based design and evaluation of cell membrane biology learning activities within the Model of Educational Reconstruction and experiential realism. First, we designed analogy-based learning activities by considering students' and scientists' conceptions as described in the literature. Secondly, we…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Thinking Skills, Cytology, Molecular Biology
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
Liang, Liang; Yan, Xian-Chun; Cao, Xiu-Li; He, Lin; Zheng, Min-Hua; Qin, Hong-Yan; Han, Hua – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
With the better understanding of human genome and genetic contributions to human complex diseases, more and more clinical genetic tests have been developed for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases. This has raised new challenges to classroom teaching of medical genetics (MG) in medical education of undergraduates, who are…
Descriptors: Genetics, Medical Education, Undergraduate Students, Experiential Learning
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
Machová, Markéta; Ehler, Edvard – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Even though genetics has been implemented in biology curricula at secondary schools for decades, reports repeatedly indicate that students still hold various misconceptions about this topic. To successfully target these misconceptions, we need to know their nature and origin. We aimed to investigate these properties in the Czech educational system…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Genetics
Robles-Piñeros, Jairo; Tateo, Luca – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
The article presents the results of an exploratory-qualitative study about children´s conceptions of ecology in relation to media messages. The objective of the study has been to identify the role of ecologism and environmental campaigns on ecology conceptions of 105 6th grade children, age 10-12, from an educational institution in Bogota,…
Descriptors: Ecology, Scientific Concepts, Biology, Science Education
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
Esquivel-Martín, Tamara; Bravo-Torija, Beatriz; Pérez-Martín, José Manuel – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Cell division is one of the most relevant processes in Biology, for instance, to understand the reproduction of species or the development of tumours. Learning this content requires not addressing it out of context but integrating it into real-life problems that demand students apply their knowledge about cell division. In this study, the authors…
Descriptors: Biology, Cytology, Science Instruction, Small Group Instruction
Simard, Catherine – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This article outlines the results from the research on primary and secondary school pupils' conceptualisation of microorganisms. It has been observed from the past few decades that one conceptual model is dominant, in which microorganisms are considered harmful, disease-causing and living in dirty environments. These misconceptions are only likely…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Microbiology
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
Moore-Anderson, Christian – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Systems thinking is a powerful concept in biology which can help students understand how the diversity of contexts in the biology curriculum all have similar underlying characteristics. However, it is not currently a common feature in secondary education as it is not part of the National Curriculum of England. Research on systems thinking has…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Secondary School Curriculum, Systems Approach, Secondary School Science
Karatas, Ayla – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study aims to determine misconceptions about interphase, a basic phase in the cell cycle and to address those misconceptions. Meristem cells in plants, stem cells in animals, spermatogonia and oogonia cells, and some cells with partial regeneration ability do not lose dividing ability. However, normal tissue cells other than these are in the…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Cytology, Science Teachers
Ayotte-Beaudet, Jean-Philippe; Chastenay, Pierre; Beaudry, Marie-Claude; L'Heureux, Kassandra; Giamellaro, Michael; Smith, Jonathan; Desjarlais, Estelle; Paquette, Alain – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
The present study explored the impacts of a contextualised outdoor science curriculum on "what" and "how" elementary students learn when immersed in the local contexts in which natural phenomena occur. We conducted 63 individual interviews with fifth- and sixth-graders (between 10 and 12 years old) living in the inner city of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Science Education, Elementary School Students, Ecology
Jones, Harriet L.; Zini, Valentina; Green, Jon R.; Prendergast, John R.; Scott, Jon – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic caused severe disruption to education in the UK in 2020, with most of the school teaching moving online and national school examinations being cancelled. This was particularly disruptive for those taking end of school examinations in preparation for higher education. Biological science courses require students to absorb a lot…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Tests, Biological Sciences, College Students