Biology Education

• Meena Kharatmal & Nagarjuna G.: Introducing rigor in concept maps. In M. Croitoru, S. Ferre, and D. Lukose (Eds.), In Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence, ICCS 2010, LNAI 6208, pp. 199-202, Springer Verlag 2010.

In Journals

• Meena Kharatmal (2009): Concept Mapping for Eliciting Students’ Understanding of Science. Indian Educational Review. 45(2), pp.31-43, 2009.

• Abhijeet Bardapurkar (2008): “Do Students See the “Selection” in Organic Evolution? A Critical Review of the Causal Structure of Student Explanations”. Evolution: Education and Outreach 1(3), 299-305.

• Rekha Vartak (2006) Photosynthesis in plants with non-green leaves, Journal of Biological Education, 40(4).

• Rekha Vartak (2001) Chromatography - An Educational Tool, Resonance 6, pp. 83-91.

• Bakhtaver S Mahajan (2000) Biology Olympiad Programme in India, Current Science, 79(8), pp. 1058-1061.

• Bakhtaver S Mahajan, Medha Rajadhyaksha (1998) Biological Evolution, Resonance, 3(9), pp. 74-80.

• Bakhtaver S Mahajan (1992) Understanding of Evolution, Biology Education.

• Shilpa Pathak, Bakhtaver S Mahajan, Amita Akolkar ( 2002) Onion as an educational tool for phylogenetic studies: Molecular analysis and a new phylogeny? Resonance, 7(3), pp. 66-79.

In Proceedings

• Meena Kharatmal & G. Nagarjuna (2011):  An Analysis of Growth of Knowledge Based on Concepts and Predicates---A Preliminary Study. In S. Chunawala & M. Kharatmal (Eds.) Proceedings of epiSTEME 4 -- International Conference to Review Research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, p. 144-149. India: Macmillan.

• Meena Kharatmal & Nagarjuna G. (2009): Refined Concept Maps for Science Education: A Feasibility Study   In K. Subramaniam & A. Majumdar (Eds.) epiSTEME 3 Third International Conference on Review of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education. Mumbai: MacMillan Publishers Ltd.

• Meena Kharatmal & Nagarjuna G. (2008): Exploring the Roots of Rigor: A Proposal of a Methodology for Analyzing the Conceptual Change from a Novice to an Expert  In A. Canas, P. Reiska, M. Ahlberg, J. Novak (Eds.) Concept Mapping: Connecting Educators. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Concept Mapping. Tallinn, Estonia & Helsinki, Finland.

• Meena Kharatmal & Nagarjuna G. (2007): An Alternative Proposal for Eliciting and Assessing Students’ Knowledge Structure  In C. Natarajan & B. Choksi (Eds.) epiSTEME 2 Second International Conference on Review of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education. Mumbai: MacMillan Publishers Ltd.

• Meena Kharatmal & Nagarjuna G. (2006): A Proposal To Refine Concept Mapping for Effective Science Learning  In A. Canas,  J. Novak, (Eds.) Concept Maps: Theory, Methodology, Technology. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Concept Mapping. San Jose, Costa Rica.

• Meena Kharatmal & Nagarjuna G. (2004): Understanding Science Through Knowledge Organizers. In J. Ramadas & S. Chunawala (Eds.) epiSTEME 1 First International Conference on Review of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education. Mumbai: HBCSE.

• Nagarjuna G. (2002): A Methodology for the Analysis of Biological Knowledge Base, Conference Proceedings of ICSTME for Human Development, HBCSE Mumbai.