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Janina Vanhöfen; Christoph Randler; Freya Neunhoeffer; Talia Härtel; Cheyenne Engeser; Christian Fischer – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Field trips provide real-world learning opportunities in biology education as they promote knowledge about nature among other things. As biodiversity is declining knowledge of species is important for understanding and appreciating the natural world and its implications. Many field guides are digitally available, but differences from traditional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Field Trips, Ornithology
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Kevin M. Bonney – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Online learning is a well-established and growing, yet controversial and widely criticized, component of higher education. In this study, in-person and online versions of an undergraduate introductory biology class were compared to determine whether the online version of the course promoted student performance as well as the in-person course.…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Online Courses, In Person Learning, College Science
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Çingil Baris, Çigdem – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Along with the COVID-19 pandemic, universities in Turkey as well as all over the world have started to carry out their education activities with the distance education method. In this case, many difficulties were encountered in the application of the Biology course, which is one of the applied courses carried out in the laboratory. Virtual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Linda D. Prentice; Cristina Cardona – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2022
After receiving many anecdotes about student cheating and plagiarism in online and remote classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, the School of Mathematics and Science (SOMS) at the Community College of Baltimore County convened an Academic Integrity Committee to investigate these issues. A survey was sent to SOMS faculty members to determine their…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Science, Community College Students, Ethics
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Bikongoro, Peragia F. – African Educational Research Journal, 2015
This paper argues that effective education in a knowledge society cannot be realized unless the issue of the policy of the language of instruction and assessment is resolved. This study discusses the relevance of the language policy currently in use for instruction and assessment of Ordinary Secondary Education in Tanzania. It also presents the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, African Languages, English
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Webb, Aubree M.; Knight, Stephanie L.; Wu, X. Ben; Schielack, Jane F. – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2014
The purpose of this research is to explore a new computer-based interactive learning approach to assess the impact on student learning and attitudes toward science in a large university ecology classroom. A comparison was done with an established program to measure the relative impact of the new approach. The first inquiry project, BearCam, gives…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Biology