en-gb webmaster@ltsnbio.leeds.ac.uk http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/images/hea/heabioscience.gif Centre for Bioscience http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk 125 70 Centre for Bioscience Bioscience Education recent articles http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/ The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Bioscience is a national centre providing subject based support for the UK higher education bioscience community in the area of learning and teaching. Field study of plant diversity: extending the whole-class knowledge base through open-ended learning http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-1.aspx Ray Goulder and Graham Scott The Use of Pre-Lectures in a University Biology Course - Eliminating the Need for Prerequisites http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-2.aspx Karen Burke da Silva, Narelle Hunter The Role of the Postgraduate Student in Delivering Bioscience Teaching http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-3.aspx Jon Scott and Stephen J Maw Teaching a Dyslexic Student - Critical Incident Analysis as an Effective Pedagogical Tool http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-4.aspx Jatinder Ahluwalia Computer-Based Learning Packages Have a Role, but Care Needs to be Given as to When They Are Delivered http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-5.aspx Joseph G. Quinn, Karen King, David Roberts, Linda Carey, and Angela Mousley Teaching Critical Appraisal to Sport & Exercise Sciences and Biosciences Students http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-6.aspx Anna Phillips ‘Dealing’ With Incidence, Prevalence, and Odds Concepts in Undergraduate Epidemiology http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-7.aspx David S. Senchina and Kelly R. Laurson Online lab books for supervision of project students http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-c1.aspx Jo Badge and Richard Badge Promoting active learning through ‘pub quizzes’ - a case study at the University of Kent http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-c2.aspx Peter Klappa Book review: Creating Effective Undergraduate Research Programmes in Science: The Transformation from Student to Scientist http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-r1.aspx Martin Luck Book review: Bad Science http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol14/beej-14-r2.aspx Chris Willmott A Compulsory Bioethics Module for a Large Final Year Undergraduate Class http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-1.aspx Roger Pearce Current Trends in Laboratory Class Teaching in University Bioscience Programmes http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-3.aspx David J Adams Learning the Science of Research, Learning the Art of Teaching: Planning Backwards in a College Genetics Course http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-4.aspx David Lee Carlson and Pamela A. Marshall Perceptions of Feedback One Year On: A Comparative Study of the Views of First and Second Year Biological Sciences Students. http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-2.aspx Jon Scott, Jo Badge, Alan Cann A Second Life PCR lab evaluation http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-5.aspx Stephanie Cobb, Rose Heaney and Stephanie Henderson-Begg The Timing of Referred Examinations http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-c1.aspx Robert Slater Enhanced Profcasts and Class Attendance? Does Year in Program Matter? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-c2.aspx Jane Holbrook and Chris Dupont Study and Communication Skills for the Biosciences http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol13/beej-13-r1.aspx Terry McAndrew Seeing Eye-to-Eye? Staff and Student Views on Feedback http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-1.aspx Ruth Bevan, Joanne Badge, Alan Cann, Chris Willmott and Jon Scott Problems Encountered In Teaching/Learning Integrated Photosynthesis: A Case of Ineffective Pedagogical Practice? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-3.aspx Bhinyo Panijpan, Pintip Ruenwongsa and Namkang Sriwattanarothai Guided Practice Software for teaching DNA Replication to Senior High School Students http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-4.aspx Eric C Woods, Alan E McKinnon, Jonathan GH Hickford, Walt A Abell Excel Yourself with Personalised Email Messages http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-c1.aspx Stephen McLean Assessing analysis and reasoning in bioethics http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-c2.aspx Roger Pearce Primary datasets for case studies of river-water quality http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-c3.aspx Ray Goulder Reinforcing the Links Between Teaching and Research: Evaluation of a Scheme to Employ Undergraduate Students as Laboratory Assistants http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-2.aspx Monica Hughes, Kate Brown and Jane E. Calvert Promoting Engagement: Using Species Action Plans to bring together Students and Conservation Professionals http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-5.aspx Graham W. Scott, Shona Turnbull and James Spencer Applying Symmetries of Common Objects to Help Students Understand Stereoselectivity for Apparently Symmetric Substrates http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-6.aspx Piyachat Jittam, Pintip Ruenwongsa and Bhinyo Panijpan Biology and Society: A New Way to Teach Tertiary Science to Non-science Students http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-c4.aspx Karen Burke da Silva The Use of a Graphical Input Device to Assist Student Learning http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-c6.aspx Peter Klappa An Annotated List of Disciplines and Sub-disciplines in the Biological Sciences http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-c7.aspx Brandon McDonald Using Tablet Technology for University Lectures http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-c5.aspx Victoria Chester Enhancing Assessment in the Biological Sciences: Ideas and Resources for University Educators http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-r1.aspx Anne C Crook The Family That Couldn’t Sleep; - Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-r2.aspx Ed Wood The Science of Chocolate http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-r3.aspx Ed Wood Making Small Talk - Audio MP3 Files Made More Portable http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-l1.aspx Stephen McClean Data Analysis - Make it Easy http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol12/beej-12-l2.aspx Stewart Edwards Student Learning Networks on Residential Fields Courses: Does Size matter? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-1.htm Mark Langan, Rod Cullen and David Shuker The Student View of 1st year Laboratory Work in Biosciences - Score Gamma? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-2.htm Mike Collis, Alan Gibson, Ian Hughes, Gill Sayers and Martin Todd Computer-assisted and Peer assessment: a Combined Approach to Assessing First Year Laboratory Practical Classes for Large Numbers of Students http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-4.htm Gayle Ferguson, Elizabeth Sheader and Ruth Grady Who Wants to be a Biologist? An Excellent Quiz Tool for Students http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-c1.htm Ian J Turner Students’ Attitudes to and Usage of Academic Feedback Provided Via Audio Files http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-3.htm Stephen Merry and Paul Orsmond Investigating the Impact on Skill Development of an Undergraduate Scientific Research Skills Course http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-5.htm Kay H Yeoman and Barbara Zamorski Molecular Biology Masterclasses - Developing Practical Skills and Building Links with Higher Education in Years 12/13 http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-6.htm Paul Hooley, Phillippa Cooper and Nick Skidmore Summative Assessment with Formative Feedback: An Intervention in a Small Bioscience Cohort http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-c2.htm Damian Parry, Carl Larsen, Cathy Walsh Best Practices in Biotechnology Education http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-r1.htm Ed Wood Enterprise for Life Scientists http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-r2.htm Sarah Wilbourn Your Inner Fish http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-r3.htm Ed Wood Molecular Biology of the Cell (Fifth Edition) http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-r4.htm Qiuyu Wang and Chris Smith Biomathtutor Evaluation - a tutor’s perspective http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-r5.htm Kay Foster Profile.ac.uk - A Program for Administering Placement Students and Much More http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-r6.htm Gillian Fraser Using Peer Teaching to Support Co-operative Learning in Undergraduate Pharmacology http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-8.htm Iris Depaz and Roger W Moni Student Perceptions of Social Learning Space: Designing and Implementing a Co-operative Assessment Task in Pharmacology http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-9.htm Roger W Moni, Iris Depaz and Lesley J Lluka What is HINARI? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-0.htm Ed Wood Use of PharmaCALogy Software in a PBL Programme to Teach Nurse Prescribing http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-1.htm Iain P L Coleman and Adam S Watts Making bioinformatics projects a meaningful experience in an undergraduate biotechnology or biomedical science programme http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-2.htm Iain C. Sutcliffe and Stephen P. Cummings Experience(s) in creating distance learning texts http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-3.htm P. A. Todd The Effectiveness of Lecture-Integrated, Web-Supported Case Studies in Large Group Teaching http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-4.htm May Azzawi and Maureen M Dawson Dice and DNA http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-5.htm Rasmus Wernersson Attitudes to the Uses of Animals in Higher Education: Has Anything Changed? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-6.htm Lynda Donaldson and Roger Downie Knowledge or Skills - The Way to a Meaningful Degree? An Investigation Into The Importance of Key Skills Within an Undergraduate Degree and The Effect This Has On Student Success http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-7.htm Stuart Carroll and Mark Feltham Podcasting is Dead. Long Live Video! http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-c1.htm Alan J Cann Student Failure in First Year Modules in the Biosciences: An Interview Based Investigation http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-c2.htm Jon Scott and Maria Graal Perspectives on Self-Directed Learning - the Importance of Attitudes and Skills http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-c3.htm Parineetha P Bhat, B Rajashekar and Ullas Kamath Research Methods in Education (6th Edition) http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-r1.htm Mike Joy The Quantitative Effect of Students Using Podcasts in a First Year Undergraduate Exercise Physiology Module http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-8.htm Grant Abt and Tim Barry Realising e-Learning matters in a Bioscience Cohort http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol10/beej-10-9.htm Damian Parry, Carl Larsen, Simon Marwood and Cathy Walsh The Use of Computer Based Assessments in a Field Biology Module http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol9/beej-9-5.htm Glenn K Baggott and Richard C Rayne Educational Research: Biologists Finding their Voice http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol9/beej-9-C1.htm Paul Orsmond 'You have 45 minutes, starting from now': Helping Students Develop their Exam Essay Skills http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol9/beej-9-C2.htm Chris Willmott "What advice would you give to students starting your course?" http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol9/beej-9-C3.htm Aneeqa Meedin A Tool for Mapping Research Skills in Undergraduate Curricula http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol9/beej-9-1.htm Gillian A Fraser, Anne C Crook and Julian R Park Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Teaching Large Classes: Development and Evaluation of a Novel e-Resource in Cancer Biology http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol9/beej-9-2.htm Momna V Hejmadi Attitudes to Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students: an Interview-based Study Comparing British and American University Teachers http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol9/beej-9-3.htm John A Bryant and Cindy L Morgan Assigning Level in Data Mining Exercises http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol9/beej-9-4.htm Paul Hooley, Ian J. Chilton, Daron A.Fincham, Alan T.Burns and Michael P.Whitehead Do we assume too much? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol8/beej-8-0.htm Chris Willmott Plagiarism: Do Students Know What It Is? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol8/beej-8-1.htm Maureen Dawson and Joyce Overfield Supporting the Development of Undergraduates’ Experimental Design Skills and Investigating their Perceptions of Project Work http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol8/beej-8-2.htm Jane MacKenzie and Graeme Ruxton First Employment of British Pharmacology Graduates http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol8/beej-8-3.htm Michael Hollingsworth and Anthony Markham Assessed Online Discussion Groups in Biology Education http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol8/beej-8-4.htm Alan J Cann, Jane E Calvert, Karine L Masse and Kevin G Moffat Evaluation of Formative Computer-based Assessment by Cell Biology Students with Differing Entry Qualifications and Ethnicity http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol8/beej-8-5.htm Christopher Bax, Glenn Baggott, Ellen Howey, Carolyn Pellet-Many, Richard Rayne, Maria Neonaki, Bridget E. Bax, Christopher Branford White The Biology of Cancer http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol8/beej-8-R1.htm Reviewed by Andrew Fry Genomes 3 http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol8/beej-8-R2.htm Reviewed by Jeremy Pritchard The Findings of an Assessment Audit: an NTFS Project Report http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-1.htm Ian Hughes Blues for the Lecture Theatre - the Pharmacology Songbook http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-2.htm Ewen MacDonald and Jarmo Saarti Written Feedback for Students: too much, too detailed or too incomprehensible to be effective? http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-3.htm Chris Glover and Evelyn Brown Why am I Here? Student Choice in the Biosciences http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/Beej-7-4.htm Jon Scott Correlates between Bioscience Students’ Experiences of Higher Education and the Neurobiology of Learning http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/Beej-7-5.htm Poppy Turner and Andrew Curran Educational Modules in Tissue Engineering Based on the “How People Learn” Framework http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-6.htm Gülnur Birol, Shu Q. Liu, H. David Smith, and Penny Hirsch Using Online Microassessments to Drive Student Learning http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-7.htm Alasdair Thin Instant Notes: Medical Microbiology http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-R1.htm Ed Wood Ethics for Life Scientists http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-R2.htm John Bryant How to Study: Practical Tips for Students http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-R3.htm Ed Wood Never again shout, "that WOULD have been useful for my teaching!" at the TV http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-R4.htm Chris Willmott Correction: Approaches to the Teaching of Bioethics and Professional Ethics in Undergraduate Course http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-CR.htm Roger Downie Experimental Design for the Life Sciences (2nd Edition) http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-R4.htm Allan Jones Assessing feedback and offering feedback on assessment http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol7/beej-7-0.htm Chris Willmott Web 2.0: Unlearned Lessons from Previous Virtual Learning Environments http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal/vol11/beej-11-7.htm Emilia Bertolo