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View Resource Assessment of the teaching of evolution by natural selection through a hands-on simulation

Given the expense, time and considerable teacher effort required to perform hands-on activities in the classroom, their consequences for student learning need to be evaluated. This study takes one example of student-active learning, students collecting and analyzing their own data, and asks whether the physical act of collecting data increases students’ learning of natural selection and affect...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

View Resource Evaluating a Multi-Component Assessment Framework for Biodiversity Education

The Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP) is a global initiative that seeks to create opportunities for the broad exchange of educational and training information and strategies among conservation educators and practitioners. The lack of access to such resources is a significant obstacle to building capacity in biodiversity conservation. To expand teaching resources and...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

View Resource Enhancing science teachers' understanding of ecosystem interactions with qualitative conceptual models

The project described in this article explores how a series of conceptual ecological models can be used to portray the improvement in ecological understanding over the span of a short course. The course involved high school teachers working collaboratively on ecological research projects. Teachers were asked to construct qualitative conceptual models (a diagram of important ecosystem components...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

View Resource Pathways to Scientific Teaching, Chapter 3b of 7: Ecological controversy: analysis to synthesis

The article by John Banks [attached] outlines innovative programs worldwide that integrate the seemingly opposed goals of agriculture and conservation biology to produce mutually beneficial outcomes. This ecological conflict and subsequent movement towards integration provides an opportunity for students to actively learn science by structuring arguments for both sides of an issue, then...

 

Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library

View Resource Practitioner Research Improved My Students’ Understanding of Evolution by Natural Selection in an Introductory Biology Course

Many undergraduates are challenged in their understanding of evolutionary biology because they harbor deeply held misconceptions about basic evolutionary concepts that are highly resistant to instruction. This paper presents results of eight years of practitioner research to improve my teaching and my students’ learning of evolution in an introductory biology course at Widener University...

 

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