The Biology Education Area is a group for people who are interested in teaching and in teaching-related research. Our common goal is to promote high quality instruction and enhance learning by applying educational research to course and curricular design. This area transcends sub-disciplinary boundaries by working with other research areas to help answer discipline-specific questions related to teaching and learning methodology.<br><br>In the Biology Education Area, we focus on improving the quality of biology education at Purdue and around the world. Members of our area participate in a range of interdisciplinary activities that attempt to promote student success in biology by improving study and teaching methods. Scholarship in the Biology Education research area focuses on:<br><br>developing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)<br>innovating classroom and laboratory instruction to improve teaching and learning effectiveness<br>promoting retention and graduation of graduate and undergraduate students in Biology<br>faculty development<br>education of and outreach to High School Biology teachers