Evaluating the Representation of Community Colleges in Biology Education Research Publications following a Call to Action.

ABSTRACT: Interest in biology education research (BER) has been growing over the last two decades, yet few BER publications focus on community colleges, which serve a large percentage of the undergraduate student population and a majority of those students who identify with historically underserved groups. In this paper, we define community college biology education research (CC BER) as publications with a community college faculty member as an author, publications with a community college study context or a focus on community college biology teaching and learning, and publications that use community college students as a source of data. We conducted a literature review to quantify how CC BER has progressed since initial calls for broadening participation by recording the number of CC BER publicatio

SUBMITTER: Creech C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9727599 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature