Mission Statement

The Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research's mission is to transform biology education through research and practice.

Vision Statement

SABER's vision is to be the leading scientific community for advancing post-secondary biology education research (BER) and practice through empowering researchers, educators, and learners. A core commitment of the organization is to embrace justice, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of our work.

Goals

• Promoting the generation of evidence-based knowledge to inform and advance post-secondary teaching and learning in biology; 
• Facilitating the dissemination of BER findings to education researchers, classroom practitioners, and other stakeholders; 
• Supporting faculty as they implement evidence-based methodology in their post-secondary teaching; 
• Fostering the development of undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and emerging scholars as they pursue professional development and career opportunities in BER; 
• Increasing BER efforts in currently understudied and underserved teaching and learning contexts; 
• Striving for an inclusive BER community that reflects a diversity of post-secondary educators and emerging scholars; 
• Establishing standards of BER practice and evidence; Fostering collaborations among BER investigators and other stakeholders; 
• Valuing a diversity of knowledge-generation methodologies across a wide spectrum of BER research; 
• Fostering a sense of collegiality and camaraderie among members.

By-Laws

SABER is governed by by-laws that were formally adopted in 2019 by the inaugural Steering Committee and last updated and approved in 2024.

SABER By-Laws