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

Catherine Creech; Jan Just; Sarah Hammarlund; Cleo E. Rolle; Ngawang Y. Gonsar; Alyssa Olson; Nikaila Campbell; Karissa Mennes; Cecilia Adoradio; Paula Soneral; Sharday Ewell; Clay Mazur; A. Kelly Lane; James Hewlett; Sehoya H Cotner

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

Catherine Creech, Jan Just, Sarah Hammarlund, Cleo E. Rolle, Ngawang Y. Gonsar, Alyssa Olson, Nikaila Campbell, Karissa Mennes, Cecilia Adoradio, Paula Soneral, Sharday Ewell, Clay Mazur, A. Kelly Lane, James Hewlett, Sehoya H Cotner

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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 publications in seven prominent journals between 2016 and 2020. Our formal analysis of peer-reviewed BER literature indicates that there has been a statistically significant increase in CC BER publications from 3.2% to 5.9% of total BER publications since the last analysis in 2017. We conclude with a discussion of strategies for further broadening of participation in CC BER.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	ar67
Journal	CBE life sciences education
Volume	21
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-09-0249
State	Published - Dec 1 2022

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This work originated during an annual meeting (2021) of the Equity and Diversity in Undergraduate STEM (EDU-STEM) net- work. EDU-STEM is supported by NSF DBI-1919462 awarded to S.C. We thank Jeff Schinske and Lisa Corwin for their help in re-creating their 2017 literature analysis. Finally, we thank our fabulous students and colleagues, who continually motivate and inspire us.

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© 2022 C. Creech et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2022 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license.

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Creech, C., Just, J., Hammarlund, S., Rolle, C. E., Gonsar, N. Y., Olson, A., Campbell, N., Mennes, K., Adoradio, C., Soneral, P., Ewell, S., Mazur, C., Lane, A. K., Hewlett, J., & Cotner, S. H. (2022). Evaluating the Representation of Community Colleges in Biology Education Research Publications following a Call to Action. CBE life sciences education, 21(4), Article ar67. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-09-0249

Creech, C, Just, J, Hammarlund, S, Rolle, CE, Gonsar, NY, Olson, A, Campbell, N, Mennes, K, Adoradio, C, Soneral, P, Ewell, S, Mazur, C, Lane, AK, Hewlett, J & Cotner, SH 2022, 'Evaluating the Representation of Community Colleges in Biology Education Research Publications following a Call to Action', CBE life sciences education, vol. 21, no. 4, ar67. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-09-0249

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