The Tree-thinking Challenge: Analyzing the Use of Evolutionary Trees with Secondary Education Students
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El desafío del tree thinking: un análisis del uso de árboles evolutivos con estudiantes de educación secundaria (Spanish)
El desafío del tree thinking: un análisis del uso de árboles evolutivos con estudiantes de educación secundaria (Spanish)
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Jun 23, 2016
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This paper deals with an analysis of tree thinking development in ninth grade
secondary education students of a public school in Bogota (Colombia); for this, transcriptions of class recordings, field and observation notes, and data analysis documents were used. A qualitative approach was used to study the students’ explanations, arguments and schematic representations about the evolutionary relations between some species and their common ancestor. The observations and interpretations made allow to assert that the students are able to develop tree thinking and to build evolutionary relations. However, using the visual representation of evolutionary trees requires teachers to receive a kind of training that would allow them to take into account and overcome the difficulties documented in this work.
secondary education students of a public school in Bogota (Colombia); for this, transcriptions of class recordings, field and observation notes, and data analysis documents were used. A qualitative approach was used to study the students’ explanations, arguments and schematic representations about the evolutionary relations between some species and their common ancestor. The observations and interpretations made allow to assert that the students are able to develop tree thinking and to build evolutionary relations. However, using the visual representation of evolutionary trees requires teachers to receive a kind of training that would allow them to take into account and overcome the difficulties documented in this work.
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Peñaloza, G., & Robles-Piñeros, J. (2016). The Tree-thinking Challenge: Analyzing the Use of Evolutionary Trees with Secondary Education Students. Journal of Biology Education, 19(1), (pp. 54-72). https://doi.org/10.59524/2344-9225.v19.n1.22530
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Peñaloza, G., & Robles-Piñeros, J. (2016). The Tree-thinking Challenge: Analyzing the Use of Evolutionary Trees with Secondary Education Students. Journal of Biology Education, 19(1), (pp. 54-72). https://doi.org/10.59524/2344-9225.v19.n1.22530