How Do Students Critically Evaluate Outdated Language That Relates to Gender in Biology?

ABSTRACT: Cisheteronormative ideologies are infused into every aspect of society, including undergraduate science. We set out to identify the extent to which students can identify cisheteronormative language in biology textbooks by posing several hypothetical textbook questions and asking students to modify them to make the language more accurate (defined as "correct; precise; using language that applies to all people"). First, we confirmed that textbooks commonly use language that conflates or confuses sex and gender. We used this information to design two sample questions that used similar language. We examined what parts of the questions students modified, and the changes they recommended. When asked to modify sample textbook questions, we found the most common terms or words that students identi

SUBMITTER: Dunk RDP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11235110 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature