Over the last 25 years, reforms in undergraduate biology education have transformed the way biology is taught at many institutions of higher education. This has been fueled in part by a burgeoning discipline-based education research community, which has advocated for evidence-based instructional practices based on findings from research. This perspective will review some of the changes to undergraduate biology education that have gained or are currently gaining momentum, becoming increasingly common in undergraduate biology classrooms. However, there are still areas in need of improvement. Although more underrepresented minority students are enrolling in and graduating from biology programs than in the past, there is a need to understand the experiences and broaden participation of other underserved groups in biology and ensure biology classroom learning environments are inclusive. Additionally, although understanding biology relies on understanding concepts from the physical sciences and mathematics, students still rarely connect the concepts they learn from other STEM disciplines to biology. Integrating concepts and practices across the STEM disciplines will be critical for biology graduates as they tackle the biological problems of the twenty-first century.

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满足不断变化的环境需求：本科生物教育的进步与挑战

在过去的 25 年中，本科生物教育的改革已经改变了许多高等教育机构的生物教学方式。这在一定程度上得益于新兴的基于学科的教育研究社区，该社区倡导基于研究结果的循证教学实践。这个观点将回顾本科生物教育的一些变化，这些变化已经获得或正在获得动力，在本科生物课堂中变得越来越普遍。然而，仍有一些地方需要改进。尽管与过去相比，更多的少数族裔学生注册并从生物课程毕业，需要了解其他服务不足的群体在生物学方面的经验并扩大他们的参与范围，并确保生物学课堂学习环境具有包容性。此外，尽管理解生物学依赖于理解物理科学和数学中的概念，但学生仍然很少将他们从其他 STEM 学科中学到的概念与生物学联系起来。整合 STEM 学科的概念和实践对于生物学毕业生来说至关重要，因为他们解决了 21 世纪的生物学问题。