OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An analysis of plant awareness disparity within introductory biology textbook images	16
Branches of plant blindness and their relationship with biodiversity conceptualisation among secondary students	16
Measuring Students’ Plant Awareness: A Prerequisite for Effective Botany Education	16
The problem-based learning (PBL) of biology for promoting health literacy in secondary school students	12
Designer considerations and processes in developing school-based citizen-science curricula for environmental education	12
Chlorophyll does not reflect green light – how to correct a misconception	12
Interpreting students’ ideas on the availability of energy and matter in food webs	11
Secondary school students’ misconceptions in genetics: origins and solutions	11
A hybrid strategy to develop real-life competences combining flipped classroom, jigsaw method and project-based learning	10
What can be done to increase future teachers’ plant knowledge?	10
Contribution of 3D modelling and printing to learning in primary schools: a case study with visually impaired students from an inclusive Biology classroom	10
Traditional vs. virtual laboratories in health sciences education	9
Integration of biomimicry into science education: biomimicry teaching approach	9
Studying natural history far from the museum: the impact of 3D models on teaching, learning, and motivation	9
Interactive socio-scientific inquiry for promoting scientific literacy, enhancing biological knowledge, and developing critical thinking	9
Sex and fertility education in England: an analysis of biology curricula and students’ experiences	8
Feedback loop reasoning in physiological contexts	8
Understanding barriers to participation within undergraduate STEM laboratories: towards development of an inclusive curriculum	8
Environmental literacy of lower secondary school pupils in the Czech Republic	7
Microorganism education: misconceptions and obstacles	7
Preschool children’s attitude toward some unpopular animals and formation of a positive attitude toward them through hands-on activities	6
The UnEssay project as an enriching alternative to practical exams in pre-professional and graduate education	6
Exploring the impacts of contextualised outdoor science education on learning: the case of primary school students learning about ecosystem relationships	6
The effect of CKCM-oriented instruction on Grade 8 students’ conceptual understanding of sustainable development	6
Human evolution in your hands. Inclusive education with 3D-printed TYPHLOLOGICAL replicas	6

The need for learning bioethics and law for biology students	6
From concept to reality: the use and impact of 3D prints as academic tools for high school biology education	5
Teaching native biodiversity: an exploratory study with Brazilian teachers	5
Difficult topics in the revised biology curriculum for advanced level secondary schools in Rwanda: teachers’ perceptions of causes and remedies	5
Use of design thinking as a strategy to identify and clear students’ misconceptions in photosynthesis: a case study	5
Place-based education through immersive virtual experiences — preparing biology students for the field	5
Teaching ecosystem services: a pathway to improve students’ argumentation in favour of nature conservation and sustainable development?	5
Using multiple strategies in deepening the understanding of the digestive system	5
Developing assessments to elicit and characterize undergraduate mechanistic explanations about information flow in biology	4
‘Let’s play?’ A systematic review of board games in biology	4
The ‘Tea Test’ - a mobile phone based spectrophotometer protocol to introduce biochemical methods independent of the laboratory	4
The notion of ‘information’ in genetics: a pragmatic model	4
Middle school students’ alternative conceptions about the human blood circulatory system using four-tier multiple-choice tests	4
Design, delivery and evaluation of a bioinformatics education workshop for 13-16-year-olds	4
Application and exploration of blended learning with BOPPPS teaching model in a veterinary infectious diseases course	4
Climate change, sustainability and the environment: the continued importance of biological education	4
Integration of ‘design thinking’ in a reflection model to enhance the teaching of biology	4
‘I already know about it, I’ve been watching the Daily News and updates’: Teenagers’ questions about the scientific and social aspects of COVID-19	4
Attitudes towards plants – exploring the role of plants’ ecosystem services	4
Course-based undergraduate research experiences are a viable approach to increase access to research experiences in biology	4
The Pedagogical Impact of Board Games in Public Health Biology Education: The Bioracer Board Game	4
Same, same but different! Exploring children’s understandings of within-species variation	4
How students engage in biomimicry	4
Cooperation as a causal factor in human evolution: a scientific clarification and analysis of German high school biology textbooks	4
Bioscience laboratory practicals, projects and placements in a Covid-19 world	4
Using lessons from a comparative study of chemistry & bioscience pre-lab activities to design effective pre-lab interventions : a case study	4
A guided interactive simulation as a tool to teach the classical approach of monoclonal antibody (MAb) production to undergraduate immunology students	4
Primary children’s views about appreciating, supporting, and learning about nature	4
The role of reflective journals for biology education students in genetics course	3
Describing changes in student thinking about evolution in response to instruction: the case of a group of Chilean ninth-grade students	3
The medium matters! The effect of a mobile digital identification tool on students’ intrinsic motivation during plant identification	3
Inquiry-based learning in immunology: analysis of scientific argument construction by undergraduate students in biological science and health care classes	3
Study of the impact of objective structured laboratory examination to evaluate students’ practical competencies	3
The effect of the ‘Predict-Observe-Explain (POE)’ strategy in teaching photosynthesis and respiration concepts to pre-service science teachers	3
Upper secondary students’ thinking pathways in cell membrane biology – an evidence-based development and evaluation of learning activities using the Model of Educational Reconstruction	3
“Bacteria are not viruses; viruses are more malicious” - young pupils’ understanding of bacteria and viruses in the aftermath of COVID-19	3
Have teachers’ opinions about outdoor education changed after the pandemic?	3
Designing a curriculum for the networked knowledge facet of systems thinking in secondary biology courses: a pragmatic framework	3
A study of the interactions and conversations of families visiting the museum of microbiology of the Butantan institute, São Paulo, Brazil	3
How can learners explain phenomena in ecology using evolutionary evidence from informal learning environments as resources?	3
Befriending Bumblebees through hands-on activities in biology classes: Living Bumblebees lead to lasting knowledge and provide high learning enjoyment	3
Representation for whom? Transformation of sex/gender discussion from stereotypes to silence in Finnish biology textbooks from 20th to 21th century	3
High school students’ perceptions of science and scientists improve following university-based online DNA day	3
ICT tools and citizen science: a pathway to promote science learning and Education for Sustainable Development in schools	3
Drawing our garden’s insects : a didactic sequence to improve pre-service teachers’ knowledge and appreciation of insect diversity	3
Overcoming plant blindness: are the future teachers ready?	2
Critical thinking activities in Florida undergraduate biology classes improves comprehension of climate change	2
Developing students’ scientific literacy through an e-portfolio project at a community college gateway science course	2
Blending educational gaming with physical experiments to engage high school students in inquiry-based learning	2
Using a social media project as a way to get students to communicate conservation messages to the general public	2

A comparison of indoor and outdoor biology education: What is the effect on student knowledge, attitudes, and retention?	2
Which socio-scientific dimensions do 11^th graders refer to when deciding whether to be vaccinated against COVID-19?	2
Isn’t all about trash... Children’s conceptions about ecology and their implications for biology education in Colombia	2
The wolf is back! Revisiting the concept of the ecological niche to predict the viability of the wolf population with elementary students	2
Metacognitive judgements in the learning of cellular theory in elementary school students	2
Combining virtual simulations with take-home projects as a replacement for face-to-face labs in introductory biology laboratory courses	2
You said, we did! Employer led work-simulated learning framework for enhancing ecology graduate employability	2
Saudi students’ and science teachers’ knowledge of and attitudes towards biotechnology	2
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 biolog	2
Solving a problem about cancer treatment: how does the use of the mitotic spindle model evolve during small group discussions?	2
Lost in ‘translation’? A set of writing workshops improves Molecular Medicine Honours students’ perceptions of their scientific report writing skills	2
Pokémon as a playful and didactic tool for teaching about ecological interactions	2
Basque secondary school students’ understanding of natural selection and teleological reasoning: knowledge vs. knowledge application	2
Reclimating: 0°C as a target for global warming	2
Mapping the ‘becoming-integrated-academic’: an autoethnographic case study of professional becoming in the biosciences	2
Conflict of allegiance: professional development challenges in transforming science teachers’ identities and practices	2
Designing and evaluation of 3D materials for teaching biological systems to 6 ^th grade students with visual impairment (SVI)	2
Validation of Climate and Motivational Measures for Use in the Biology Laboratory Setting	2
Elementary school students’ interests and attitudes towards biology and physics	2
Investigating what students learnt about biodiversity following a visit to a nature reserve using Personal Meaning Maps	2
Grit matters to biology doctoral students’ perception of barriers to degree completion	2
Project-based learning in biomedical sciences: using the collaborative creation of revision resources to consolidate knowledge, promote cohort identity and develop transferable skills	2
Integrating museum education into an introductory biology CURE leads to positive perceptions of scientific research and museum exhibitions among students, faculty, and staff	2
Students’ conceptions of keeping fattening pigs and dairy cows: an exploratory interview study with elementary school students in North-West Germany	2
Cough, sneeze, pass it on – pupils’ understanding of infectious diseases in the aftermath of COVID-19	2
Approaching the risk perception gap: effects of a subject matter knowledge-based intervention in a health context	2
The use of a three-tier diagnostic test to investigate conceptions related to cell biology concepts among pre-service teachers of life and earth sciences	2
Novel, simple and inexpensive programmed lab experiments to evaluate the biocontrol activity of rhizobacteria on fungal phytopathogens	2
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?	1
Is it time to remove Mendel from the school curriculum?	1
Effectiveness of documentary-based augmented reality application in teaching environmental problems	1
Exploring the use of problem-based learning in clinical embryology training	1
The use of constructive controversy to improve students’ understandings of and attitudes towards animal welfare in China	1
The Conceptual Analysis of Disciplinary Evidence (CADE) framework as a guide for evidentiary reasoning: A practical implementation in a Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) laboratory investigation	1
Young children’s spontaneous use of isometric and non-isometric symmetries: a study regarding their unprompted depictions of plant life	1
Unravelling the Central Dogma of Biology in an active way: a case study	1
Do examinations prepare students for higher education? A lesson from the Covid-19 lockdown	1
Perceived relevance of critical thinking aspects for biology graduate students	1
Teacher views of experimentation in ecosystem science	1
Development and validation of a measure instrument for the understanding of structural-functional correlations of the locomotor system (MUSCLS)	1
Simple experiment on legume-rhizobium symbiosis aimed at students without laboratory experience	1
Decolonisation and socio-political arenas in science education: reflecting on the role of biological education	1
Secularism, biology teachers, and evolution teaching: a comparative analysis of the Brazilian phenomenon	1
A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil	1
Computational Modelling in High School Biology: A Teaching Intervention	1
Exploring individual differences in photosynthesis and respiration knowledge in the context of green plants	1
Do biology syllabi provide opportunities for secondary school students to engage with critical thinking skills?	1
‘Are they walking their talk?’: alignment of teachers’ professed beliefs and enacted practices for teaching through dialogic argumentation	1
Environmental education to engage urban youth: anecdotes from Southwest China	1
Diagram production in Biology: comparing children and pre-service teachers’ performance	1
How do plants protect themselves from insects? A practical laboratory exercise to illustrate the defence mechanisms of the plant through secondary metabolites	1
Acceptance of CRISPR-based technologies for clinical application: a Thematic Analysis of Attitudes on Novel Gene Therapies in Undergraduates	1
An interest-oriented laboratory microbial engineering course is helpful for the cultivation of scientific literacy	1
Investigating student experiences of botanical field work using a semi-immersive virtual botanical fieldtrip	1
Conceptual alignment between the somatic cell division curriculum, textbooks, instruction, and assessment in high school	1
The development and validation of the Mutation Criterion Referenced Assessment (MuCRA)	1
Exploring the local vegetation: botanical inquiry trail, an interactive journey of learning	1
How the flipped classroom improves student learning in medical microbiology education: a meta-analysis	1
Effective learning and testing of bird identification skills	1
Can current science research in the biological sciences be used in primary school children’s scientific enquiry?	1
Antimicrobial resistance as a nexus between teaching and research	1
Guiding students’ explanations across levels of biological organisation: the case of wilted plants	1
Generalised mutagenesis with transposon Tn5. A laboratory procedure for the identification of genes responsible for a bacterial phenotype and its regulation, illustrated with phenazine producti	1
Plants, education and sustainability: rethinking the teaching of botany in school science	1
‘Awesome to see the immense time before us on Earth’ – Students’ affective responses when interacting with a tree of life visualising evolutionary concepts	1
Editorial	1
The role of biology teachers in epistemically insightful health and wellbeing education: a case study of the English relationships, sex and health education curriculum	1
Designing a module for supporting secondary biology students’ morality through socioscientific issues in the human-nature context	1
Teaching and learning about risk	1
The influence of Nature of Science embedded in the Argument-Driven Inquiry instructional method to promote content knowledge and self-efficacy of pre-service science teachers in evolution	1