CBE-Life Sciences Education

Papers
(The median citation count of CBE-Life Sciences Education is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 S109
Developmental Trajectories of Student Self-Perception over a Yearlong Introductory Biology Sequence98
Students with Disabilities in Life Science Undergraduate Research Experiences: Challenges and Opportunities69
Characterizing the Content and Mechanisms of Instructor Messages that Communicate Instructor Beliefs About Ability to Undergraduates62
Could Instructor Talk Drive CURE Effectiveness? A Comparative Study of Instructor Talk in Introductory Lab Courses54
Using Systems and Systems Thinking to Unify Biology Education54
Reflective Practices in Education: A Primer for Practitioners47
A Study Planning Exercise Associated with Decreased Distraction Levels among Introductory Biology Students46
Career Pathways and Skill Preparedness among Biology PhDs: A Social Cognitive Career Theory Perspective45
The Influence of Instructor Behaviors and the Perceived Motivational Climate on Undergraduate Students’ Experiences in College STEM Laboratories45
“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
A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Improves Outcomes in Mentored Research36
Elevating Marginalized Student Experiences of Belonging in the Life Sciences: A Qualitative Case Study Approach33
Factors Influencing Student Motivations and Experiences in STEM Course Office Hours31
Which Group Dynamics Matter: Social Predictors of Student Achievement in Team-Based Undergraduate Science Classrooms30
A Longitudinal Study Identifying the Characteristics and Content Knowledge of Those Seeking Certification to Teach Secondary Biology in the United States28
Factors Predicting the Extent to which STEM Students Value Cross-Disciplinary Skills: A Study across Four Institutions27
Opening the Pathway: An Example of Universal Design for Learning as a Guide to Inclusive Teaching Practices27
The Role of Faculty in Cultivating Thriving Campus STEM Ecosystems27
Designing Activities to Teach Higher-Order Skills: How Feedback and Constraint Affect Learning of Experimental Design27
Cultivating PhD Aspirations during College27
Undergraduate STEM Students’ Perceptions of Grading Practices Reveal that Quiz Retakes Positively Impact Drivers of Self-determination26
What I Wish My Instructor Knew: How Active Learning Influences the Classroom Experiences and Self-Advocacy of STEM Majors with ADHD and Specific Learning Disabilities26
What a Difference in Pressure Makes! A Framework Describing Undergraduate Students’ Reasoning about Bulk Flow Down Pressure Gradients25
Undergraduate Biology Students’ Climate Change Communication Experiences Indicate a Need for Discipline-Based Education Research on Science Communication Education about Culturally Controversial Scien25
Supervised Study: Required Independent Research at a Community College Supports Persistence in Science24
Cisnormative Language and Erasure of Trans* and Genderqueer Student Representation in Biology Education Research24
Low-stakes Scientist Spotlight Assignment Demonstrates High Value and Multiple Effects for Introductory Biology Students23
Engaging with CC Bio INSITES: Experiences of Barriers, Supports, and Belonging in Community College Faculty Participating in Biology Education Research23
Empowering Disabled Voices: A Practical Guide for Methodological Shifts in Biology Education Research22
The Impact of Postgraduate Mentors on Undergraduate Researcher Gains22
Co-teaching in Undergraduate STEM Education: A Lever for Pedagogical Change toward Evidence-Based Teaching?21
Access to Online Formative Assessments in Lower-Division Undergraduate Biology Courses: Investigating Barriers to Student Engagement21
Development of the Mentoring in Undergraduate Research Survey21
What Drives Change? Characterizing Scientific Self-Efficacy Development in Undergraduate Research Experiences21
Overcoming the Barriers to Teaching Teamwork to Undergraduates in STEM21
Mentorship for Transfer Student Success in STEM Research: Mentor Approaches and Reflections20
Instructor Talk and Student Belonging in Introductory Biology: Not all Talk Matters and Relationships Vary by Student Identity20
Emotion, Fact, and Anthropogenic Disturbances: Undergraduate Attitudes Toward Wildfire and Urbanization after a Brief Intervention20
Replication of an Intervention to Mitigate Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching Yields Variable Results Across a Biology Department20
Examining Faculty Dynamics in the Development of New Undergraduate Curricula that Transcend Disciplinary Silos19
“Your Family is Always With You”: Perceptions of Parental Relationships Among Hispanic/Latinx Young Adults Pursuing STEM Careers19
How Do Instructors Explain The Mechanism by which ATP Drives Unfavorable Processes?19
Exploring Student Perspectives: How Graduate Students in a Life Science Department Define Success18
Undergraduate Biology Lecture Courses Predominantly Test Facts about Science Rather than Scientific Practices18
Faculty and Undergraduate Learning Assistants’ Perspectives on Supports and Barriers for Student-Centered Instructional Change in Introductory Biology17
Student Motivations and Barriers toward Online and In-Person Office Hours in STEM Courses17
Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors17
Inclusive Research Environments for Deaf and Hard of Hearing English Speakers16
Putting the Pieces Together: Student Thinking about Transformations of Energy and Matter16
Broadening Participation in Biology Education Research: A role for affinity groups in promoting social connectivity, self-efficacy, and belonging16
Moving the Needle: Evidence of an Effective Study Strategy Intervention in a Community College Biology Course16
The Fourth Credit Hour: How do we Teach in Biology Discussion Sections?16
Breaking Stereotypes: How Undergraduates’ Life Experiences of Scientists Shape their Scopes of Possibility15
Sustainability and Justice: Challenges and Opportunities for an Open STEM Education15
Recent Research in Science Teaching and Learning15
Demographics Matter: Non-white and White Life Science Graduate Students Perceive and Use Resources Differently15
Puerto Rican Students Rising in STEM: Findings from a Multicampus Collaborative CURE Program to Promote Student Success15
A Multi-institutional Cluster Analysis to Identify Groups of Courses with Exemplary Opportunity Gaps for Undergraduate Students in the Biological Sciences15
Expanding Research on Responsive Teaching14
What Makes a Good Match? Predictors of Quality Mentorship Among Doctoral Students14
Highlighting Counterstereotypical Scientists in Undergraduate Life Science Courses14
An Instructor’s Guide to Including Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom14
Impacts of Learning Assistants on Student Belonging and Confidence Vary Across Science Disciplines and Course Contexts13
To Cope or Not to Cope? Characterizing Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Coping with Teaching and Research Anxieties13
Resource Use in Introductory Biology: Evaluating Latent Patterns, Demographic Covariates, and Effects on Final Course Grade13
Metacognition and Self-Efficacy in Action: How First-Year Students Monitor and Use Self-Coaching to Move Past Metacognitive Discomfort During Problem Solving13
Experience with Scientific Teaching in Face-to-Face Settings Promoted Usage of Evidence-Based Practices during Emergency Remote Teaching12
Insights from What Kids Can Do12
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
Teaching Evaluation Readiness Assessment (TERA): Development of a Tool to Measure Faculty Readiness for Advancing Departmental Teaching Evaluation Practices12
Investigating Instructor Talk among Graduate Teaching Assistants in Undergraduate Biology Laboratory Classrooms12
What College Biology Students Know about How Vaccines Work12
Relationships between Prediction Accuracy, Metacognitive Reflection, and Performance in Introductory Genetics Students11
“Big Ideas” of Introductory Chemistry and Biology Courses and the Connections between Them11
“It's because of me – I made myself get here”: First-Generation College Students in STEM Motivations for, and Experiences with, Academic Advising11
Student Perspectives of Success and Failure in Biology Lecture: Multifaceted Definitions and Misalignments11
“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
Metacognitive Exam Preparation Assignments in an Introductory Biology Course Improve Exam Scores for Lower ACT Students Compared with Assignments that Focus on Terms10
Fueling Ambition: Graduate Degree Aspirations Among Women of Color in STEM10
Research Anxiety Predicts Undergraduates’ Intentions to Pursue Scientific Research Careers10
Beyond the Traditional Classroom: Increased Course Structure and Cooperative Learning Remove Differences in Achievement between Students in an In-Person versus Hybrid Microbiology Course10
What's in a Prompt? Assignment Prompt Cues Influence Data Analysis, Critique, and Inclusion of Follow-up Experiments10
Similarity and Contact Frequency Promote Mentorship Quality among Hispanic Undergraduates in STEM10
Peer-Modeled Mindsets: An Approach to Customizing Life Sciences Studying Interventions10
Enhancing Research Dissemination, Science Identity, and Research Self-Efficacy among Underrepresented Biomedical Science Majors: The Impact of Undergraduate Research Experiences10
Self-Efficacy is a Stronger Predictor of Final Grade Than Motivation in an Introductory Biology Course: A Structural Equation Analysis10
The Sense of Belonging Quotient: Relating Sense of Belonging to Predictors of Scientific Civic Engagement and Science Identity in Civically Engaged Curricula9
Forming Groups in a Large-Enrollment Biology Class: Group Permanence Matters More than Group Size9
Can we Mitigate the Impacts of Test Anxiety Through Reappraisal Interventions? A Replication Study in Science Courses Across Multiple Institution Types in the United States9
Supporting Multilingual Science Learners9
Studying with Friends in Introductory Biology Is Associated with Low Impact Study Strategies and No Improvement of Exam Scores9
Students’ Emotions, Perceived Coping, and Outcomes in Response to Research-Based Challenges and Failures in Two Sequential CUREs9
An Undergraduate Health Care Experience Course Increases Confidence and Improves Student Understanding of Health Care Careers9
The Experiences of Students with Concealable Muslim Identities During Peer Interactions in Undergraduate Biology Courses9
Evidence for the Efficacy of Conflict-reducing Practices in Undergraduate Evolution Education in a Randomized Controlled Study9
Engaging Students around the Complex Socioscientific Issue of Sustainability: Affordances and Tensions of Faculty Working across Disciplines to Develop Transdisciplinary Curricula9
Understanding the Benefits of Residential Field Courses: The Importance of Class Learning Goal Orientation and Class Belonging9
Thriving or Simply Surviving? A Qualitative Exploration of STEM Community College Students’ Transition to a Four-Year University8
The Experiences of Undergraduates with Depression in Online Science Learning Environments8
Exploring the Complementarity of Measures of Instructional Practices8
A Student-Centered, Entrepreneurship Development (ASCEND) Undergraduate Summer Research Program: Foundational Training for Health Research8
Change as a Scientific Enterprise: Practical Suggestions about Using Change Theory8
Yours, Mine, Sometimes Ours: Uncovering the Experiences of Biologists Searching for Academic Jobs Together8
The Tangible Benefits of Disability and Accessibility Awareness in Evolutionary Biology College Courses Centered in Universal Design for Learning (UDL)8
Increased Pass Rates in Introductory Biology: Benefits and Potential Costs of Implementing a Mathematics Prerequisite in a Community College Setting8
It Takes Two: Online and In-person Discussions Offer Complementary Learning Opportunities for Students8
Investigating Student Noticing of Quantitative Reasoning in Introductory Biology Labs8
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 Science8
Challenging Misconceptions about Race in Undergraduate Genetics8
Gender Identity and Student Perceptions of Peer Research Aptitude in CUREs and Traditional Laboratory Courses in the Biological Sciences8
“It's More Of A Me-Thing Than An Evolution Thing”: Exploring The Validity Of Evolution Acceptance Measures Using Student Interviews8
Probing Visual Literacy Skills Reveals Unexpected Student Conceptions of Chromosomes8
A Community-Based, Culturally Engaging STEM Learning Environment and Its Impact on Students’ Psychosocial Attributes at a Rural Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)7
Student Thinking in the Professional Development of College Biology Instructors: An Analysis through the Lens of Sociocultural Theory7
The Making of Future Scientists: Faculty Mentor Cultural Awareness and Inclusive Science Labs7
Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education7
Maximizing the Value of Learning Assistants for Students’ Belonging, Mattering, and Confidence in Gateway STEM Courses7
Toward Causal Inferences in Discipline-Based Education Research: Using Regression Discontinuity Design to Understand the Effect of Classroom Interventions7
“Scientists are People too”: Biology Students Relate More to Scientists When They are Humanized in Course Materials7
Undergraduate R Programming Anxiety in Ecology: Persistent Gender Gaps and Coping Strategies7
An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Factors Contributing to Students’ Perceptions of Inclusion in Introductory STEM Courses7
Annotations of LSE Research: Students Identify How to Support their Transfer from Community College7
Biology Students’ Math and Computer Science Task Values Are Closely Linked7
Improving University Life Science Instruction with Analogies: Insights from a Course for Graduate Teaching Assistants7
Probing Internal Assumptions of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy7
Unveiling Concealable Stigmatized Identities in Class: The Impact of an Instructor Revealing Her LGBTQ+ Identity to Students in a Large-Enrollment Biology Course6
Self-Testing and Follow-Through of Learning Strategies Supports Student Success6
Few LGBTQ+ Science and Engineering Instructors Come Out to Students, Despite Potential Benefits6
The Power of Peer Experiences: Shifts in Science Motivation and Impacts on Performance6
A Road Map for Planning Course Transformation Using Learning Objectives6
Addressing Racism in Human Genetics and Genomics Education6
A card-sorting tool to measure expert versus novice thinking in scientific research6
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
Teaching Discipline-Based Problem Solving6
Examining the Variations in Undergraduate Students’ Conceptions of Successful Researchers: A Phenomenographic Study6
Cross-disciplinary CURE Program Increases Educational Aspirations in a Large Community College6
What Student Struggles do Instructors see? Teacher Knowledge of Students in Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences6
“I don’t Know what I Would do Without it” How Life Science Graduate Students Describe Resource Value6
Guides to Advance Teaching Evaluation (GATEs): A Resource for STEM Departments Planning Robust and Equitable Evaluation Practices6
Book Review: Highlighting the Value Proposition of a Liberal Arts Education in STEMM and Beyond6
Understanding Randomness on a Molecular Level: A Diagnostic Tool6
Participation in Undergraduate Research Reduces Equity Gaps in STEM Graduation Rates6
Virtually the Same? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Remote Undergraduate Research Experiences5
Exploring Undergraduate Biochemistry Students’ Gesture Production Through an Embodied Framework5
Recognizing Compatibility, but Hesitant about In-Class Discussion: Nonreligious Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant Perceptions of the Relationship between Religion and Evolution5
“Broadening Perspectives Activities” Improve LGBTQ+ Student Experiences and Religious Students’ Content Comprehension5
Comparing the Outcomes of Face-to-Face and Synchronous Online Research Mentor Training Using Propensity Score Matching5
Collaborative Teaching plus (CT+): A Timely, Flexible, and Dynamic Course Design Implemented during Emergency Remote Teaching in an Introductory Biology Course5
Intersecting Identities: A Look at How Ethnic Identity Interacts With Science Identity in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Students5
The Gendered Impact of Depression on Undergraduate Students’ Research Gains: Can More Competent Mentors Help?5
Beyond Gender and Race: The Representation of Concealable Identities Among College Science Instructors at Research Institutions5
The Answer is “No”: A Comment on Peugh and Feldon (2020)5
The Impact of Context on Students’ Framing and Reasoning about Fluid Dynamics5
Promoting Achievement for Community College STEM Students through Equity-Minded Practices5
“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
Community College Student Understanding and Perceptions of Evolution5
Building the Next Chapter of LSE: New Sections, New Voices, New Opportunities5
Why Students Struggle in Undergraduate Biology: Sources and Solutions5
Who is Represented in the Research on Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Natural Sciences? A Review of Literature5
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