CBE-Life Sciences Education

Papers
(The median citation count of CBE-Life Sciences Education is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Study Planning Exercise Associated with Decreased Distraction Levels among Introductory Biology Students105
Using a STEM Course on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility to Explore Student Reflections on their Socialization into STEM and their Observations of the Figured World of Higher Education S63
Students with Disabilities in Life Science Undergraduate Research Experiences: Challenges and Opportunities62
Reflective Practices in Education: A Primer for Practitioners61
Using Systems and Systems Thinking to Unify Biology Education49
Teaching the Tough Topics: Fostering Ideological Awareness through the Inclusion of Societally Impactful Topics in Introductory Biology47
Developmental Trajectories of Student Self-Perception over a Yearlong Introductory Biology Sequence43
Elevating Marginalized Student Experiences of Belonging in the Life Sciences: A Qualitative Case Study Approach39
The Influence of Instructor Behaviors and the Perceived Motivational Climate on Undergraduate Students’ Experiences in College STEM Laboratories39
Development of a Framework for the Culture of Scientific Research38
Factors Influencing Student Motivations and Experiences in STEM Course Office Hours37
Which Group Dynamics Matter: Social Predictors of Student Achievement in Team-Based Undergraduate Science Classrooms37
“No matter what your story is, there is a place for you in science”: Students’ Ability to Relate to Scientists Positively Shifts after Scientist Spotlight Assignments, Especially for First-Generation 37
What a Difference in Pressure Makes! A Framework Describing Undergraduate Students’ Reasoning about Bulk Flow Down Pressure Gradients34
A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Improves Outcomes in Mentored Research34
Opening the Pathway: An Example of Universal Design for Learning as a Guide to Inclusive Teaching Practices34
Brief, Written Reflections Improve Interest of Introductory Animal Science Undergraduates33
A Longitudinal Study Identifying the Characteristics and Content Knowledge of Those Seeking Certification to Teach Secondary Biology in the United States31
Cultivating PhD Aspirations during College28
What I Wish My Instructor Knew: How Active Learning Influences the Classroom Experiences and Self-Advocacy of STEM Majors with ADHD and Specific Learning Disabilities27
A New Measure of Students’ Perceived Conflict between Evolution and Religion (PCoRE) Is a Stronger Predictor of Evolution Acceptance than Understanding or Religiosity27
Undergraduate STEM Students’ Perceptions of Grading Practices Reveal that Quiz Retakes Positively Impact Drivers of Self-determination27
Designing Activities to Teach Higher-Order Skills: How Feedback and Constraint Affect Learning of Experimental Design27
Factors Predicting the Extent to which STEM Students Value Cross-Disciplinary Skills: A Study across Four Institutions27
Supervised Study: Required Independent Research at a Community College Supports Persistence in Science26
The Role of Faculty in Cultivating Thriving Campus STEM Ecosystems26
Access to Online Formative Assessments in Lower-Division Undergraduate Biology Courses: Investigating Barriers to Student Engagement23
Empowering Disabled Voices: A Practical Guide for Methodological Shifts in Biology Education Research21
Overcoming the Barriers to Teaching Teamwork to Undergraduates in STEM21
Interpret with Caution: COPUS Instructional Styles May Not Differ in Terms of Practices That Support Student Learning21
Engaging with CC Bio INSITES: Experiences of Barriers, Supports, and Belonging in Community College Faculty Participating in Biology Education Research20
Modeling and Measuring Tree-Reading Skills in Undergraduate and Graduate Students20
Cisnormative Language and Erasure of Trans* and Genderqueer Student Representation in Biology Education Research19
The Emerging STEM Paths and Science Identities of Hispanic/Latinx College Students: Examining the Impact of Multiple Undergraduate Research Experiences19
Co-teaching in Undergraduate STEM Education: A Lever for Pedagogical Change toward Evidence-Based Teaching?19
Nipped in the Bud: COVID-19 Reveals the Malleability of STEM Student Self-Efficacy19
Low-stakes Scientist Spotlight Assignment Demonstrates High Value and Multiple Effects for Introductory Biology Students18
Undergraduate Biology Students’ Climate Change Communication Experiences Indicate a Need for Discipline-Based Education Research on Science Communication Education about Culturally Controversial Scien18
Development of the Mentoring in Undergraduate Research Survey18
The Impact of Postgraduate Mentors on Undergraduate Researcher Gains18
A Framework of College Student Buy-in to Evidence-Based Teaching Practices in STEM: The Roles of Trust and Growth Mindset18
Mentorship for Transfer Student Success in STEM Research: Mentor Approaches and Reflections17
Undergraduate Biology Lecture Courses Predominantly Test Facts about Science Rather than Scientific Practices17
Exploring Student Perspectives: How Graduate Students in a Life Science Department Define Success17
“Your Family is Always With You”: Perceptions of Parental Relationships Among Hispanic/Latinx Young Adults Pursuing STEM Careers16
How Do Instructors Explain The Mechanism by which ATP Drives Unfavorable Processes?16
Emotion, Fact, and Anthropogenic Disturbances: Undergraduate Attitudes Toward Wildfire and Urbanization after a Brief Intervention16
Student Motivations and Barriers toward Online and In-Person Office Hours in STEM Courses16
Inclusive Research Environments for Deaf and Hard of Hearing English Speakers15
A Multi-institutional Cluster Analysis to Identify Groups of Courses with Exemplary Opportunity Gaps for Undergraduate Students in the Biological Sciences15
Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success15
Recent Research in Science Teaching and Learning15
Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors15
Punnett Squares or Protein Production? The Expert–Novice Divide for Conceptions of Genes and Gene Expression15
Demographics Matter: Non-white and White Life Science Graduate Students Perceive and Use Resources Differently15
Metacognition and Self-Efficacy in Action: How First-Year Students Monitor and Use Self-Coaching to Move Past Metacognitive Discomfort During Problem Solving14
Moving the Needle: Evidence of an Effective Study Strategy Intervention in a Community College Biology Course14
Expanding Research on Responsive Teaching14
Putting the Pieces Together: Student Thinking about Transformations of Energy and Matter14
PhDepression: Examining How Graduate Research and Teaching Affect Depression in Life Sciences PhD Students14
What Makes a Good Match? Predictors of Quality Mentorship Among Doctoral Students14
Sustainability and Justice: Challenges and Opportunities for an Open STEM Education14
Broadening Participation in Biology Education Research: A role for affinity groups in promoting social connectivity, self-efficacy, and belonging14
Factors Influencing Retention of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students in Undergraduate STEM Majors14
Breaking Stereotypes: How Undergraduates’ Life Experiences of Scientists Shape their Scopes of Possibility13
To Cope or Not to Cope? Characterizing Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Coping with Teaching and Research Anxieties13
Highlighting Counterstereotypical Scientists in Undergraduate Life Science Courses13
Impacts of Learning Assistants on Student Belonging and Confidence Vary Across Science Disciplines and Course Contexts13
An Instructor’s Guide to Including Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom13
Fostering Metacognition to Support Student Learning and Performance13
Evaluating a National Biomedical Training Program Using QuantCrit: Revealing Disparities in Research Self-efficacy for Women of Color Undergraduates12
Learning Introductory Biology: Students’ Concept-Building Approaches Predict Transfer on Biology Exams12
Investigating Instructor Talk among Graduate Teaching Assistants in Undergraduate Biology Laboratory Classrooms12
Supporting Scientific Practice through Model-Based Inquiry: A Students’-Eye View of Grappling with Data, Uncertainty, and Community in a Laboratory Experience12
What College Biology Students Know about How Vaccines Work12
Student Perspectives of Success and Failure in Biology Lecture: Multifaceted Definitions and Misalignments11
Relationships between Prediction Accuracy, Metacognitive Reflection, and Performance in Introductory Genetics Students11
Reimagining the Introductory Math Curriculum for Life Sciences Students11
“Big Ideas” of Introductory Chemistry and Biology Courses and the Connections between Them11
Experience with Scientific Teaching in Face-to-Face Settings Promoted Usage of Evidence-Based Practices during Emergency Remote Teaching11
Beyond the Traditional Classroom: Increased Course Structure and Cooperative Learning Remove Differences in Achievement between Students in an In-Person versus Hybrid Microbiology Course11
Inside and Out: Factors That Support and Hinder the Self-Advocacy of Undergraduates with ADHD and/or Specific Learning Disabilities in STEM11
“Oh, that makes sense”: Social Metacognition in Small-Group Problem Solving11
Broadening Access to STEM through the Community College: Investigating the Role of Course-Based Research Experiences (CREs)11
Self-Efficacy is a Stronger Predictor of Final Grade Than Motivation in an Introductory Biology Course: A Structural Equation Analysis10
Development of a Certification Exam to Assess Undergraduate Students’ Proficiency in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Core Concepts10
Forming Groups in a Large-Enrollment Biology Class: Group Permanence Matters More than Group Size10
An Undergraduate Health Care Experience Course Increases Confidence and Improves Student Understanding of Health Care Careers10
Peer-Modeled Mindsets: An Approach to Customizing Life Sciences Studying Interventions10
Understanding the Benefits of Residential Field Courses: The Importance of Class Learning Goal Orientation and Class Belonging10
Supporting Multilingual Science Learners10
Similarity and Contact Frequency Promote Mentorship Quality among Hispanic Undergraduates in STEM10
Research Anxiety Predicts Undergraduates’ Intentions to Pursue Scientific Research Careers10
Challenging Misconceptions about Race in Undergraduate Genetics9
To Cope or Not to Cope? Characterizing Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Coping with Teaching and Research Anxieties9
Students’ Emotions, Perceived Coping, and Outcomes in Response to Research-Based Challenges and Failures in Two Sequential CUREs9
Concept Inventories as a Complement to Learning Progressions9
Thriving or Simply Surviving? A Qualitative Exploration of STEM Community College Students’ Transition to a Four-Year University9
Engaging Students around the Complex Socioscientific Issue of Sustainability: Affordances and Tensions of Faculty Working across Disciplines to Develop Transdisciplinary Curricula9
Evidence for the Efficacy of Conflict-reducing Practices in Undergraduate Evolution Education in a Randomized Controlled Study9
A CURE Lab in Introductory Biology at a Regional Comprehensive University Negatively Impacts Student Success in the Associated Lecture Course Among Students from Groups Underrepresented in Science9
Undergraduate STEM Majors on and off the Pre-Med/Health Track: A STEM Identity Perspective9
Metacognitive Exam Preparation Assignments in an Introductory Biology Course Improve Exam Scores for Lower ACT Students Compared with Assignments that Focus on Terms9
The Experiences of Undergraduates with Depression in Online Science Learning Environments8
A Student-Centered, Entrepreneurship Development (ASCEND) Undergraduate Summer Research Program: Foundational Training for Health Research8
A Community-Based, Culturally Engaging STEM Learning Environment and Its Impact on Students’ Psychosocial Attributes at a Rural Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)8
Training Faculty as an Institutional Response to COVID-19 Emergency Remote Teaching Supported by Data8
Yours, Mine, Sometimes Ours: Uncovering the Experiences of Biologists Searching for Academic Jobs Together8
It Takes Two: Online and In-person Discussions Offer Complementary Learning Opportunities for Students8
Science Identity among Latinx Students in the Biomedical Sciences: The Role of a Critical Race Theory–Informed Undergraduate Research Experience8
Increased Pass Rates in Introductory Biology: Benefits and Potential Costs of Implementing a Mathematics Prerequisite in a Community College Setting8
Exploring the Complementarity of Measures of Instructional Practices8
An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Factors Contributing to Students’ Perceptions of Inclusion in Introductory STEM Courses7
Gender Identity and Student Perceptions of Peer Research Aptitude in CUREs and Traditional Laboratory Courses in the Biological Sciences7
Biology Students’ Math and Computer Science Task Values Are Closely Linked7
The Making of Future Scientists: Faculty Mentor Cultural Awareness and Inclusive Science Labs7
Improving University Life Science Instruction with Analogies: Insights from a Course for Graduate Teaching Assistants7
Student Thinking in the Professional Development of College Biology Instructors: An Analysis through the Lens of Sociocultural Theory7
“It's More Of A Me-Thing Than An Evolution Thing”: Exploring The Validity Of Evolution Acceptance Measures Using Student Interviews7
Investigating Student Noticing of Quantitative Reasoning in Introductory Biology Labs7
A Meta-analysis of University STEM Summer Bridge Program Effectiveness7
Annotations of LSE Research: Students Identify How to Support their Transfer from Community College7
Probing Internal Assumptions of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy7
Change as a Scientific Enterprise: Practical Suggestions about Using Change Theory7
Probing Visual Literacy Skills Reveals Unexpected Student Conceptions of Chromosomes7
A Tale of Two Institutions: Analyzing the Impact of Gamified Student Response Systems on Student Anxiety in Two Different Introductory Biology Courses7
Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education7
Drawing on Internal Strengths and Creating Spaces for Growth: How Black Science Majors Navigate the Racial Climate at a Predominantly White Institution to Succeed7
Few LGBTQ+ Science and Engineering Instructors Come Out to Students, Despite Potential Benefits6
“Scientists are People too”: Biology Students Relate More to Scientists When They are Humanized in Course Materials6
A card-sorting tool to measure expert versus novice thinking in scientific research6
Unveiling Concealable Stigmatized Identities in Class: The Impact of an Instructor Revealing Her LGBTQ+ Identity to Students in a Large-Enrollment Biology Course6
“I don’t Know what I Would do Without it” How Life Science Graduate Students Describe Resource Value6
Self-Testing and Follow-Through of Learning Strategies Supports Student Success6
A CURE on the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli Improves Student Conceptual Understanding6
Re-Envisioning the Culture of Undergraduate Biology Education to Foster Black Student Success: A Clarion Call6
Intersecting Identities: A Look at How Ethnic Identity Interacts With Science Identity in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Students6
Undergraduate R Programming Anxiety in Ecology: Persistent Gender Gaps and Coping Strategies6
Guides to Advance Teaching Evaluation (GATEs): A Resource for STEM Departments Planning Robust and Equitable Evaluation Practices6
Current Insights6
Collaborative Teaching plus (CT+): A Timely, Flexible, and Dynamic Course Design Implemented during Emergency Remote Teaching in an Introductory Biology Course5
Examining the Variations in Undergraduate Students’ Conceptions of Successful Researchers: A Phenomenographic Study5
Who is Represented in the Research on Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Natural Sciences? A Review of Literature5
A Road Map for Planning Course Transformation Using Learning Objectives5
Instructional Models for Course-Based Research Experience (CRE) Teaching5
Cross-disciplinary CURE Program Increases Educational Aspirations in a Large Community College5
Understanding Randomness on a Molecular Level: A Diagnostic Tool5
Teaching Discipline-Based Problem Solving5
Measuring Research Mentors’ Cultural Diversity Awareness for Race/Ethnicity in STEM: Validity Evidence for a New Scale5
“It made me feel like a bigger part of the STEM community”: Incorporation of Learning Assistants Enhances Students’ Sense of Belonging in a Large Introductory Biology Course5
Participation in Undergraduate Research Reduces Equity Gaps in STEM Graduation Rates5
Are Faculty Changing? How Reform Frameworks, Sampling Intensities, and Instrument Measures Impact Inferences about Student-Centered Teaching Practices5
Promoting Achievement for Community College STEM Students through Equity-Minded Practices5
Virtually the Same? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Remote Undergraduate Research Experiences5
Addressing Racism in Human Genetics and Genomics Education5
The Impact of Context on Students’ Framing and Reasoning about Fluid Dynamics4
Community College Student Understanding and Perceptions of Evolution4
Examining How Student Identities Interact with an Immersive Field Ecology Course and its Implications for Graduate School Education4
The Answer is “No”: A Comment on Peugh and Feldon (2020)4
Beyond Gender and Race: The Representation of Concealable Identities Among College Science Instructors at Research Institutions4
The Gendered Impact of Depression on Undergraduate Students’ Research Gains: Can More Competent Mentors Help?4
Student-Authored Scientist Spotlights: Investigating the Impacts of Engaging Undergraduates as Developers of Inclusive Curriculum through a Service-Learning Course4
Automated Writing Assessments Measure Undergraduate Learning after Completion of a Computer-Based Cellular Respiration Tutorial4
“Broadening Perspectives Activities” Improve LGBTQ+ Student Experiences and Religious Students’ Content Comprehension4
Why Students Struggle in Undergraduate Biology: Sources and Solutions4
Comparing the Outcomes of Face-to-Face and Synchronous Online Research Mentor Training Using Propensity Score Matching4
Exploring Undergraduate Biochemistry Students’ Gesture Production Through an Embodied Framework4
Writing and Using Learning Objectives3
Building Authentic Science Experiences: Students’ Perceptions of Sequential Course-Based Undergraduate Research3
Student Perceptions of Instructor Supportiveness: What Characteristics Make a Difference?3
Undergraduate Lay Theories of Abilities: Mindset, universality, and brilliance beliefs uniquely predict undergraduate educational outcomes3
Aspects of Large-Enrollment Online College Science Courses That Exacerbate and Alleviate Student Anxiety3
Costs and Benefits of Undergraduates Revealing Depression to Online Science Instructors3
Design and Implementation of a Tool to Assess Students’ Understanding of Metabolic Pathways Dynamics and Regulation3
Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Undergraduate STEM Education: Participatory Science as a Teaching Tool3
“How Do We Do This at a Distance?!” A Descriptive Study of Remote Undergraduate Research Programs during COVID-193
Disrupting the Master Narrative in Academic Biology as LGBTQ+ Ph.D. Students: Learning, Teaching, and Conducting Research3
Emotion in Teacher Learning and Professional Development3
Visualizing Inequities: A Step Toward Equitable Student Outcomes3
Christian Student Experiences During Peer Interactions in Undergraduate Biology Courses3
Who is in Our STEM Courses and How do We Know? Student Self-Descriptions, Intersectionality and Inclusive Education3
University Biology Classrooms as Spaces for Anti-racist Work: Instructor Motivations for Incorporating Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Content3
Accuracy and Idea Consideration: A Study of Small-Group Interaction in Biology3
A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in Biology: Developing Systems Thinking through Field Experiences in Restoration Ecology3
Students’ Experiences and Perceptions of the Scientific Research Culture after Participating in Different Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Models3
“It’s completely erasure”: A Qualitative Exploration of Experiences of Transgender, Nonbinary, Gender Nonconforming, and Questioning Students in Biology Courses3
Evaluating the Representation of Community Colleges in Biology Education Research Publications following a Call to Action3
Factors Influencing the Use of Evidence-based Instructional Practices by Community College Biology Instructors3
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