Accepting, understanding, teaching, and learning (human) evolution: Obstacles and opportunities

B Pobiner - American journal of physical anthropology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Questions about our origin as a species are universal and compelling. Evolution—and in
particular human evolution—is a subject that generates intense interest across the world …

Understanding natural selection: essential concepts and common misconceptions

TR Gregory - Evolution: Education and outreach, 2009 - Springer
Natural selection is one of the central mechanisms of evolutionary change and is the
process responsible for the evolution of adaptive features. Without a working knowledge of …

Biology education research: Building integrative frameworks for teaching and learning about living systems

RH Nehm - Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education …, 2019 - Springer
This critical review examines the challenges and opportunities facing the field of Biology
Education Research (BER). Ongoing disciplinary fragmentation is identified as a force …

HyperX: topology, routing, and packaging of efficient large-scale networks

JH Ahn, N Binkert, A Davis, M McLaren… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
In the push to achieve exascale performance, systems will grow to over 100,000 sockets, as
growing cores-per-socket and improved single-core performance provide only part of the …

Teachers teaching misconceptions: A study of factors contributing to high school biology students' acquisition of biological evolution-related misconceptions

TB Yates, EA Marek - Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2014 - Springer
Background Research has revealed that high school students matriculate to college holding
misconceptions related to biological evolution. These misconceptions interfere with students' …

A cross‐cultural comparison of Korean and American science teachers' views of evolution and the nature of science

SY Kim, RH Nehm - International Journal of Science Education, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Despite a few international comparisons of the evolutionary beliefs of the general public,
comparatively less research has focused on science teachers. Cross‐cultural studies offer …

Analyzing change in students' gene‐to‐evolution models in college‐level introductory biology

JT Dauer, JL Momsen, EB Speth… - Journal of Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Research in contemporary biology has become increasingly complex and organized around
understanding biological processes in the context of systems. To better reflect the ways of …

Applying computerized-scoring models of written biological explanations across courses and colleges: prospects and limitations

M Ha, RH Nehm, M Urban-Lurain… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2011 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Our study explored the prospects and limitations of using machine-learning software to
score introductory biology students' written explanations of evolutionary change. We …

Teaching tree-thinking to undergraduate biology students

RP Meisel - Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2010 - Springer
Evolution is the unifying principle of all biology, and understanding how evolutionary
relationships are represented is critical for a complete understanding of evolution …

Darwin's tales–A content analysis of how evolution is presented in children's books

IK Adler, D Fiedler, U Harms - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In science, certain theories led to a paradigm shift in human being's approach to explain
nature, such as the theory of relativity, the quantum theory, and the theory of evolution. The …