Concentration Core: Discipline-based Educational Research
Biology Education Reading List
Allen D. and Tanner, K. (2005). Approaches to biology teaching and learning: From a scholarly
approach to teaching the scholarship of learning. Cell Biology Education, 4(1), 1-6.
Brett, W.J. (1998). Commonalities in Biology. Bioscene—The Journal of College Biology
Teaching, 24(2), 13-17.
Buck, L.B., Bretz, S.L. and Towns, M.H. (2008). Characterizing the level of inquiry in the
undergraduate laboratory. Journal of College Science Teaching, 38(1), 52-58.
Burrows, P.A. (2003). A student-centered approach to teaching general biology that really
works: Lord’s constructivist model put to a test. The American Biology Teacher, 65(7),
491-502.
Crowe, A., Dirks, C., and Wenderoth, M.P. (2008). Biology in Bloom: Implementing Bloom’s
taxonomy to enhance student learning in biology. CBE—Life Science Education, 7(4),
368-381.
Dancy, M.H. and Beichner, R.J. (2002). But are they learning? Getting started in classroom
evaluation. Cell Biology Education, 1(3), 87-94.
Freeman, S., Haak, D., and Wenderoth, M.P. (2011). Increased course structure improves
performance in introductory biology. CBE—Life Science Education, 10(2), 175-186.
Klionsky, D.J. (2001). Constructing knowledge the lecture hall. Journal of College Science, 31(4),
246-251.
Knight, D.J. and Wood, W.B. (2005). Teaching more by lecturing less. Cell Biology Education,
4(4), 298-310.
Lawson, A.E. (2001). Using the learning cycle to teach biology concepts and reasoning patterns.
Journal of Biological Education, 35(4), 165-169.
Nelson, C.E. (2008). Teaching evolution (and all of biology) more effectively: Strategies for
engagement, critical reasoning, and confronting misconceptions. Integrative and
Comparative Biology 48(2), 213-225.
Prince, M. (2004). Does active learning work? A review of the research. Journal of Engineering
Education, 93(3), 223-231.
Stover, S.K. and Marby, M. (2004). The five-tool biology major. BioScene—The Journal of
College Biology Teaching, 30(2), 13-19.
Suchman E. (2001). Student responses to active learning strategies. BioScene—The Journal of
College Biology Teaching, 27(4), 21-2