RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY EDUCATION
Year:2019 | Volume:1 | Issue:1 |Papers Count:7

Since three years ago, new curriculum of Biology education has been administrated in Farhangian university. Regarding to deep effect of curriculum on knowledge, skills and insights of new students, criticize and investigation of strength and weakness points of new curriculums are inevitable. The main goal of this research (which is the first one in this field), is to compare new and old curriculum of Biology education course qualitatively and quantitatively. Research method is content analysis in quantitative part and tamely content analysis in qualitative part. The decrease in Biology courses share, from %3. 50 to %38 and the science courses from %14. 6 to %4. 7, and the increase of educative courses from %17. 5 to %39. 33, are the most remarkable quantitative changes. The sharp decline of Biology and laboratory courses is the most notable weaknesses of the new curriculum. The increasing of the internship courses from 4 in two semesters, to 8 in four semesters, and Definition of (PCK) courses are the most remarkable strengths of the new curriculum. Because of the essential and integrative rule of Evolution concepts in all biological sciences, deletion of Evolution course from the curriculum is an obvious weakness of the new curriculum.

Biology is one of the most important lessons in science that has closely related to important knowledge topics, including the structure of the body of the beings and their creation. Therefore, anyone with any specialization needs to learn of this strategic field. In this review the author has tried to describe and analyze the subject from a variety of dimensions by studying and scrutinizing multiple articles and personal experiences. The subject of creativity has great importance for all disciplines, especially the specialized disciplines. Traditional education of biology prevents the development of critical thinking in students and causes a deep gap between the planned and implemented curriculum. Therefore, the evolution in teaching and guiding it to creativity is essential. Learning difficulties in biology, teaching patterns, challenging issues and curriculum defects are important challenges to the study of biology. Amplification of problem solving, discovering new relationships between concepts, and using the combining education method are mentioned strategies in this article. Creative education improves brain function and reduces stress that contributes to increased learning.

5E teaching method or structuralism is a theory derived from philosophical social movement of postmodernism in the 20th century. This method, is considered as the major five stages to conduct structuralism pattern consisting of engagement, exploration, explanation, extension, and evaluation. The aim of this research is to determine the difference resulted by 5E teaching method in 6 dimensions of cognitive domain (knowledge, understanding, application, analysis, combination and evaluation) of learning of biology lesson. The technique used in it is qwasiexperimental (independent, two-group (experimental and control) with post-test). The statistical universe of this research consists of all ten th grade boy high school students Khalkhal during 96-1395. In order to gather theoretical bases and the literature of this research, documental technique as well as other related studies were used while questionnaire technique (researcher-made written test) was employed to evaluate hypotheses. Regarding the abnormality of data, the non-parametric test of Mann-Whithney was uses and to analyze and evaluate the hypotheses the spss21-statistical software was employed. The results showed, there is a meaningful difference between the control and experimental groups in this regard, by using 5E method. These results show the role and importance of employing 5E in teaching.

In this research, The Biology book, tenth grade, second grade secondary school of experimental science in 1346 According to active and disable pattern of William Rumi reviewed. The transformation in the educational system is equivalent to the evolution of the countries manpower and future construction. Because the text book is one of the most important elements in every education system and improving in this sector leads to significant changes in society and a widespread shift in learning paths. The method of research is content analysis. The statistical population of study, biology book was the tenth grade of the second grade secondary school of experimental science in 1346. Based on research findings, the learner learning rate in text, images, and activities section were 65/0, 1/0, 038/0 respectively. The results indicate that book is active in activitie, s sections and disable in two parts of text and images. The books activeness means the power student experimental in training process. Power not seen in disable education. Hope to review and make suggestions in this article, sometimes it is effective to improve the educational system of the country.

One of the new methods of using technology in Education is M-Learning. this method can be used in a variety ways such as different types of teaching methods and using a wide variety of mobile applications in teaching. Instagram as a general and comprehensive app can be recognized in teaching as a M-learning method. in this article, the efficiency of using Instagram as a teaching tool is considered. generally, 94 students in two groups and from three high schools are considered. among different high school majors, experimental science students are chosen because of the biological base of this study, it wasn’ t able to compare other majors students with them. results didn› t show any bold differences, instead, score average in using Instagram was more. based on results and author experience during teaching, teachers can use the abilities of Instagram as an auxiliary method not the main one and it can be more efficient with a low level of facilities.

One of the most important educational goals in developed countries is boom and creativity. Education as the most important educational institution with the production of creative content can be very influential in this regard. The research method is a content analysis using the Guilford Creativity and it is Applied. The statistical population consists of the content of the Biology book of eleventh year of high school and the book of natural sciences in high schools of the United States. In the first step, questions, pictures, activities and text of books were identified and coded. In the second phase, all units in all sections with the class were matched in terms of Guilford› s creativity indices. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. In the content of the motion section of the Biology book of eleventh year, attention is not paid to the levels of cognitive memory and convergent thinking, Depending on the level of creativity of Guilford. But attention has been paid to other levels, including divergent thinking and evaluation thinking. While the text of the book of natural sciences in high schools in the United States has focused on levels of cognitive memory and convergent thinking, But, the other levels, including divergent thinking and evaluative thinking, there has not been much attention. Thus, the Biology book of eleventh year has paid more attention to The Guilford› s creativity components than the school› s natural science book.