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SABER- Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research

The Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research began in 2010 with the help of a NSF-RCN-UBE Incubator grant (NSF 0955572). The first meeting brought together 25 faculty from across the U.S. who had an interest in creating a society that would foster a greater community of individuals engaged in biology education research at the university level. Biology education research focuses on how to enhance student learning and performance in the discipline of Biology. This research spans a broad range of topics including but not limited to the following: evaluation of the effectiveness of classroom teaching methods, impact of improving student metacognition and self-efficacy, course-based undergraduate research efforts (CUREs), role of motivation and anxiety on exam performance.

Some of the key papers in the field of Biology Education Research are listed below.

SABER held its first national meeting in July 2011 in the new active learning building (STSS) on the campus of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and 160 people were in attendance. Since that time the national meeting has been held annually on that campus and has grown to over 425 attendees. At the 2019 meeting there were two long talks, 75 short talks (15 minutes with 5 minutes of questions), 157 posters and 16 round table discussions. In 2019, Dr. Vicente Talanquer was the keynote speaker. Dr. Talanquer conducts Chemistry Education Research. The abstracts of the presentations at this meeting are found on the SABER web site.