Journal of Biological Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Biological Education is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil30
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education26
Investigation of middle school and high school students’ ecosystem knowledge through their drawings24
Modelling the immune system and vaccines through design-based research19
Fictional placemaking creating meaningful contexts for causal reasoning in secondary school biology education17
Measuring students’ plant awareness: A prerequisite for effective botany education17
Teachers’ views of Future-Oriented Pedagogy as part of inquiry-based molecular biology teaching in high school biology laboratories12
The influence of spatial ability on undergraduate students’ tree-thinking ability11
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses11
The purpose of the school garden is more than just growing plants10
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking9
Student informed development of virtual reality simulations for teaching and learning in the molecular sciences8
Flower or leaf characteristics, coloured or black and white illustrations – what helps student teachers to identify plants?8
Roteiro Entre-Marés: an educational app for ocean literacy promotion8
The wolf is back! Revisiting the concept of the ecological niche to predict the viability of the wolf population with elementary students8
Laboratory class for isoenzymes teaching: simulation of creatine kinase electrophoresis using dyes7
Exploring and comparing the difficulties among undergraduate and postgraduate students’ understanding of experimentation using primary scientific literature7
What is ‘research-led teaching’ and how can we deliver it in University STEM degrees?7
Environmental literacy curriculum: an analysis of science textbooks for lower secondary education6
The Conceptual Analysis of Disciplinary Evidence (CADE) framework as a guide for evidentiary reasoning: A practical implementation in a Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) laboratory investigation6
Mapping the ‘becoming-integrated-academic’: an autoethnographic case study of professional becoming in the biosciences6
Differences between image presentation and video presentation on the outcome of teaching about the menstrual cycle6
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-196
Plant awareness: at the dawn of a new era5
Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study5
Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course5
Conflict of allegiance: professional development challenges in transforming science teachers’ identities and practices5
In awe of awe4
The role of biology teachers in epistemically insightful health and wellbeing education: a case study of the English relationships, sex and health education curriculum4
Teaching for photosynthesis literacy: an education design research study4
Pre-service teachers’ ideas about the path of water through the body and their intentions about explaining it to preschool children4
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education4
Higher education and professional performance: gaps and opportunities for developing professional skills in marine biologist graduates4
Characterisation of the pedagogical knowledge of evolution content using the mapping approach4
What is the future of knowledge?4
Plants and the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework: educational approaches to support pro-conservation behaviours4
Using a social media project as a way to get students to communicate conservation messages to the general public4
Alcohol misuse affects learning in school and university students: a role for biological education4
Conceptions of primary school students and trainee teachers about seed germination4
The role of the education sector in shaping a sustainable future4
Basque secondary school students’ understanding of natural selection and teleological reasoning: knowledge vs. knowledge application4
Course-based undergraduate research experiences are a viable approach to increase access to research experiences in biology4
Teaching and learning about risk4
When less is more in living systems: subtractive cognitive biases and life science learning3
Assessing the knowledge and attitude of middle and higher secondary school students towards waterbirds in Bhutan3
Whole-school approach to sustainability: an in-depth study of six green schools in Sweden and Türkiye3
Investigating student experiences of botanical field work using a semi-immersive virtual botanical fieldtrip3
What is a hypothesis anyway? A synthesis of perspectives and implications for undergraduate biology education based on publications in PLOS biology3
Impact of outdoor place-based learning on elementary school students’ ability to make unsolicited observations about living organisms over time3
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification3
Innovations in microbiological research education: a practical approach for investigating the effects of graphene oxide sheet nanomaterial on opportunistic pathogen viability3
Diagram production in Biology: comparing children and pre-service teachers’ performance3
Why are universities so important for biology teacher education?3
Designing and evaluation of 3D materials for teaching biological systems to 6 th grade students with visual impairment (SVI)2
Between biology and religion: dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom2
Not all Bloom and gloom: assessing constructive alignment, higher order cognitive skills, and their influence on students’ perceived learning within the practical components of an undergraduate biolog2
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?2
Inquiry practices and types of knowledge, with paths of logical associations between inquiry questions, presented as part of an open inquiry process2
Cough, sneeze, pass it on – pupils’ understanding of infectious diseases in the aftermath of COVID-192
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?2
Student reasoning during socio-scientific issues-based learning with a role play: a case study of breastfeeding versus milk formula2
Introducing nematodes and the use of model organisms: a practical class for undergraduate students2
S im H yb 2: a software tool to explore and illustrate evolutionary forces in population genetics teaching and research. Applicati2
‘Let’s play?’ A systematic review of board games in biology2
High school students’ perceptions of science and scientists improve following university-based online DNA day2
Promoting dialogue in the feedback process: face-to-face marking of assignments with biomedical science students2
Epistemology and biology teaching: obstacles to a contemporary conceptualisation of living organisms among future teachers and biologists2
Secondary school students’ misconceptions in genetics: origins and solutions2
An experimental approach to evaluate osmosis and tonicity on white blood cells by flow cytometry for biomedical physiology students2
Epistemic knowledge considered by secondary school students involved in the examination of a real alimentary emergency2
University students’ misconceptions of cellular structures and functions2
Teaching for sustainable development in vocational education2
The role of reflective journals for biology education students in genetics course2
Learning outcomes of transforming cutting-edge iPSC research into informal science courses for upper secondary school students2
Engaging seventh-grade students in prediction-observation-explanation of plant absorbance/transport phenomena: impact on relational conceptual changes and scientific inquiry abilities2
Understanding agency in evolutionary explanations: an assessment tool for biology education2
Exploring the local vegetation: botanical inquiry trail, an interactive journey of learning2
Policy responses to the decline in the number of students choosing biology beyond compulsory school level in Mauritius2
An interest-oriented laboratory microbial engineering course is helpful for the cultivation of scientific literacy2
Representation of insulin synthesis and construction of a three-dimensional insulin model as didactic tools in basic education2
Isn’t all about trash... Children’s conceptions about ecology and their implications for biology education in Colombia2
What do clean and dirty hands of primary school pupils look like?2
Computational Modelling in High School Biology: A Teaching Intervention2
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein produced by transgenic rice: research laboratory experience with secondary science students2
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants2
Perceived relevance of critical thinking aspects for biology graduate students2
Learning genetics through an innovative game: Geneblock1
Evolving UK biology education1
Environmental literacy of lower secondary school pupils in the Czech Republic1
Adapting undergraduate Biology to include science practices by teaching students to generate scientific explanations1
Teacher views of experimentation in ecosystem science1
Students’ perceptions of the presence of feral exotic pets and influencing factors1
Graph argument analysis: vaccination and the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 as a context to promote learning of molecular biology and argumentation1
The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory1
Lost in ‘translation’? A set of writing workshops improves Molecular Medicine Honours students’ perceptions of their scientific report writing skills1
Biological Education in the age of Covid: Taking a global perspective1
Antimicrobial resistance as a nexus between teaching and research1
The use of constructive controversy to improve students’ understandings of and attitudes towards animal welfare in China1
Effects of online tours at the zoo and natural history museum on interest in extant and extinct animals1
Attitudes towards plants – exploring the role of plants’ ecosystem services1
Influencing the attitude towards hand hygiene and face masks by pathogen visualisation during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Understanding barriers to participation within undergraduate STEM laboratories: towards development of an inclusive curriculum1
The effect of CKCM-oriented instruction on Grade 8 students’ conceptual understanding of sustainable development1
Cadaveric specimens versus synthetic models for learning gross human anatomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis1
Using multiple strategies in deepening the understanding of the digestive system1
Using a metacognitive awareness approach to improve perception of the fundamental biological principle – homeostasis1
Using lessons from a comparative study of chemistry & bioscience pre-lab activities to design effective pre-lab interventions : a case study1
Reflections of hands-on dissection and virtual dissection experiences of pre-service science teachers1
Middle school students’ perception of marine and coastal environments1
Using group metacognitive scaffolds in biology education to improve the collaborative problem-solving skills of high school students1
Environmental education to engage urban youth: anecdotes from Southwest China1
Ontological assumptions on the introduction of the concepts of cells and the functioning of living beings in school textbooks1
Do textbooks provide opportunities to develop meaningful botanical literacy? A case study of the scientific model of plant nutrition1
Pokémon as a playful and didactic tool for teaching about ecological interactions1
Teaching evolution: attitudes & strategies of educators in Utah – an update 20 years later1
Representation for whom? Transformation of sex/gender discussion from stereotypes to silence in Finnish biology textbooks from 20th to 21th century1
Increasing retention in STEM by improving GPA through peer mentors and course enrichments in introductory biology1
Effective learning and testing of bird identification skills1
Creating an effective fluorescence microscopy lesson as a research experience for a science educator-in- training1
Teaching ecosystem services: a pathway to improve students’ argumentation in favour of nature conservation and sustainable development?1
Blending educational gaming with physical experiments to engage high school students in inquiry-based learning1
Difficult topics in the revised biology curriculum for advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda: teachers’ perceptions of causes and remedies1
Mycelial education to cure fungal awareness disparity syndrome1
Realising the potential of ecological thinking in our universities1
Guiding students’ explanations across levels of biological organisation: the case of wilted plants1
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