CBE-Life Sciences Education (CBE-LSE)
http://www.lifescied.org/

CBE-Life Sciences Education (CBE-LSE), a free, online quarterly journal, is published by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). The journal was launched in spring 2002 as Cell Biology Education A Journal of Life Science Education. The ASCB changed the name of the journal in spring 2006 to reflect better the breadth of its readership and the scope of its submissions. CBE-LSE publishes peer-reviewed articles on life science education at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The journal focuses on how students are introduced to the study of life sciences, as well as approaches in cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics. CBE-LSE publishes research articles and descriptive articles. Research articles focus on theoretically grounded questions of science education and incorporate either quantitative or qualitative methods of analysis. Descriptive articles detail educational innovations (e.g., inquiry laboratory courses, Web-based courses, and interdisciplinary curricula). These must be ³tried and tested,² normally will include samples of course or lab materials, and must include some level of assessment to gauge efficacy of the course in terms of student learning. In planning a new course or laboratory exercise, instructors who contemplate subsequent publication of their educational innovations in CBE-LSE should give careful thought to how they will assess student learning. Articles that lack an assessment component will be returned to authors without review. In addition, research and descriptive articles are expected to display (1) pedagogical content, (2) clear description of goals and expected student outcomes, (3) transferability to other settings, (4) application to a defined audience of teachers, and (5) references to related educational literature.