Many ideas in the biological sciences seem especially difficult to understand, learn, and
teach successfully. Our goal in this feature is to explore how these difficulties may stem not …

Difficulties in understanding evolution are often rooted in early childhood, arising from naïve
assumptions and cognitive biases. However, literature reviews mainly focus on school and …

Beim Vorwissen Ihrer SchülerInnen anknüpfen! Schülervorstellungen sind ein klassisches
Thema psychologischer und fachdidaktischer Lehr-und Lernforschung. Ohne deren …

Research and theory development in cognitive psychology and science education research
remain largely isolated. Biology education researchers have documented persistent …

A large body of cognitive research has shown that people intuitively and effortlessly reason
about the biological world in complex and systematic ways. We addressed two questions …

Researchers have identified patterns of intuitive thinking that are commonly used to
understand and reason about the biological world. These cognitive construals (anthropic …

People spontaneously engage in systematic ways of thinking about biology such as human
exceptionalism (the tendency of viewing human species as separate from nonhuman …

This chapter focuses on the foundational role that intuitive reasoning, such as essentialist
and teleological reasoning, and intuitive language forms, such as generics, might play in the …

Vision and Change challenged biology instructors to develop evidence-based instructional
approaches that were grounded in the core concepts and competencies of biology. This call …

Biological kinds undergo a variety of changes during their life span, and these changes vary
in degree by organism. Understanding that an organism, such as a caterpillar, maintains …