Evolution: Education and Outreach

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Call for Papers: Evolution Assessment

The assessment of evolutionary understanding and acceptance play a central role in many evidence-based educational pursuits. Many questions in the growing field of evolution education research rely on measures drawn from assessment tools. The U.S. National Research Council (2001, 2014) has emphasized the complexity of drawing valid inferences from assessment tasks, the need for continuing evaluation of assessment tools in diverse contexts, and the paucity of formative and next-generation assessments capable of measuring complex practices and learning progressions. This new special issue welcomes research exploring any aspect of evolution assessment.

Content type: RESEARCH ARTICLE
| 17 August 2018

Investigating undergraduate health sciences students’ acceptance of evolution using MATE and GAENE

Authors: Kelsey J. Metzger, Darian Montplaisir, David Haines and Kyle Nickodem
Content type: RESEARCH ARTICLE
| 9 August 2018

Primary motivations of tourists visiting Galápagos: do tourists visit the archipelago to learn about evolution?

Authors: Clayton Mazur, Tiffany Galush, Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner
Content type: Curriculum and education
| 26 July 2018

Introducing evolutionary biologists to the analysis of big data: guidelines to organize extended bioinformatics training courses

Authors: Rui Faria, Deborah Triant, Alvaro Perdomo-Sabogal, Bert Overduin, Christoph Bleidorn, Clara Isabel Bermudez Santana, David Langenberger, Giovanni Marco Dall’Olio, Henrike Indrischek, Jan Aerts, Jan Engelhardt, Johannes Engelken, Katja Liebal, Mario Fasold, Sofia Robb, Sonja Grath…
Content type: RESEARCH ARTICLE
| 17 July 2018

Testing validity inferences for Genetic Drift Inventory scores using Rasch modeling and item order analyses

Authors: Robyn E. Tornabene, Erik Lavington and Ross H. Nehm
Content type: RESEARCH ARTICLE
| 17 July 2018

Preservice elementary teachers’ willingness to specialize in science and views on evolution

Authors: Ronald S. Hermann

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Content type: Original Science/Evolution Review
| 12 February 2008

Understanding Evolutionary Trees

Authors: T. Ryan Gregory
Content type: Original Scientific Articles
| 16 April 2009

From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises

Authors: J. G. M. Thewissen, Lisa Noelle Cooper, John C. George and Sunil Bajpai
Content type: Research article
| 28 March 2014

Teachers teaching misconceptions: a study of factors contributing to high school biology students’ acquisition of biological evolution-related misconceptions

Authors: Tony B Yates and Edmund A Marek
Content type: Research article
| 26 March 2013

Do mudskippers and lungfishes elucidate the early evolution of four-limbed vertebrates?

Authors: Ulrich Kutschera and J Malcolm Elliott
Content type: Evolutionary Concepts
| 9 April 2009

Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions

Authors: T. Ryan Gregory

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Aims and scope

Evolution: Education and Outreach promotes accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience. Evolution: Education and Outreach addresses the question of why we should care about evolution by exploring the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history.

Targeting K-16 students, teachers and scientists alike, the journal presents articles to aid members of these communities in the teaching of evolutionary theory. It connects teachers with scientists by adapting cutting-edge, peer reviewed articles for classroom use on varied instructional levels. The journal features multi-authored papers written by teachers and scientists and offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts and powerpoint presentations.

Evolution: Education and Outreach:

Promotes accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience
Explores the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history
Offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts and powerpoint presentations

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Welcome to BMC

Call for Papers: Evolution Assessment

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Investigating undergraduate health sciences students’ acceptance of evolution using MATE and GAENE

Primary motivations of tourists visiting Galápagos: do tourists visit the archipelago to learn about evolution?

Introducing evolutionary biologists to the analysis of big data: guidelines to organize extended bioinformatics training courses

Testing validity inferences for Genetic Drift Inventory scores using Rasch modeling and item order analyses

Preservice elementary teachers’ willingness to specialize in science and views on evolution

Understanding Evolutionary Trees

From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises

Teachers teaching misconceptions: a study of factors contributing to high school biology students’ acquisition of biological evolution-related misconceptions

Do mudskippers and lungfishes elucidate the early evolution of four-limbed vertebrates?

Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions

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Driving under age: assessing the behavior of older adults behind the wheel

How early can breast or ovarian cancer risk be predicted? Transmission of epigenetic changes to BRCA1 and MGMT genes

The genetics of merle coat patterns in dogs

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