Six Classroom Exercises to Teach Natural Selection to Undergraduate Biology Students

Kalinowski, Steven T.; Leonard, Mary J.; Andrews, Tessa M.; Litt, Andrea R.

doi:10.1187/cbe-12-06-0070

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“…For example, if an instructor is interested in whether a curriculum component increases students’ knowledge about natural selection, the Conceptual Inventory of Natural Selection (Anderson et al. , 2002) may be appropriate to use as a pre- and posttest (e.g., Kalinowski et al. , 2013).…”

Section: Teaching Versus Education Research Postdoctoral Positionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Guide for Graduate Students Interested in Postdoctoral Positions in Biology Education Research

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Corwin

Andrews

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LSE

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Section: Teaching Versus Education Research Postdoctoral Positionsmentioning

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A Guide for Graduate Students Interested in Postdoctoral Positions in Biology Education Research

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LSE

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“…Student misconceptions regarding evolution are very resistant to instruction (Gregory, 2009), but can be improved with the series of activities and teaching strategies (e.g. Dees, Momsen, Niemi, & Montplaisir, 2014;Kalinowski, Leonard, Andrews, & Litt, 2013;Kampourakis & Zogza, 2008;Nehm and Schonfeld, 2007;Pope, Rounds, & Clarke-Midura, 2017). Nehm and Schonfeld (2007) found that students tend to retain only what is necessary to pass the exam before returning back to their original beliefs about evolution.…”

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Evolutionary Content Knowledge, Religiosity and Educational Background of Slovene Preschool and Primary School Pre-Service Teachers

Torkar

Šorgo

2020

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed

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Evolution by natural selection is the fundamental backbone of the life sciences. Therefore, it is important for teacher education programs to ensure graduates possess a strong knowledge of evolution in order to teach at all levels of biology education. The main aim was to investigate the impacts of the Slovene pre-service preschool and primary school teachers' religiosity and educational background on their evolutionary content knowledge. In the present study, understanding of five evolutionary topics, religiosity and educational background of 269 students was studied. Results show that students have a very poor understanding of evolution. They very often use teleological reasoning. Although many pieces of research have shown that religiosity can be in conflict with evolutionary theory, our findings show that religiosity does not significantly correlate with evolutionary knowledge nor to the educational background of students. However, for students' understanding of evolution, it is important how many years of biology lessons they had in secondary school. This should be better taken into account by educational policymakers because evolutionary principles are becoming increasingly relevant in medicine, agriculture and other socio-scientific topics.

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“…Andrews et al 2012;Gregory 2008) and may look into peer-reviewed curricula for activities designed to counter misconceptions about evolution (e.g. Andrews et al 2011;Govindan 2018;Kalinowski et al 2013;Meisel 2010).…”

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Concept inventories as a resource for teaching evolution

Furrow

Hsu

2019

Evo Edu Outreach

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Understanding evolution is critical to learning biology, but few college instructors take advantage of the body of peer-reviewed literature that can inform evolution teaching and assessment. Here we summarize the peer-reviewed papers on tools to assess student learning of evolutionary concepts. These published concept inventories provide a resource for instructors to design courses, gauge student preparation, identify key misconceptions in their student population, and measure the impact of a lesson, course, or broader curriculum on student learning. Because these inventories vary in their format, target audience, and degree of validation, we outline and explain these features. In addition to summarizing the published concept inventories on topics within evolution, we lay out a flexible framework to help instructors decide when and how to use them.

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Six Classroom Exercises to Teach Natural Selection to Undergraduate Biology Students

Abstract: Six classroom lessons are presented for teaching undergraduate students in introductory biology courses how natural selection works.

Cited by 25 publications

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A Guide for Graduate Students Interested in Postdoctoral Positions in Biology Education Research

A Guide for Graduate Students Interested in Postdoctoral Positions in Biology Education Research

Evolutionary Content Knowledge, Religiosity and Educational Background of Slovene Preschool and Primary School Pre-Service Teachers

Concept inventories as a resource for teaching evolution

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