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Exploring Relations among Preservice Elementary Teachers' Ideas about Evolution, Understanding of Relevant Science Concepts, and College Science Coursework
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Rice, Diana C.; Kaya, Sibel – Research in Science Education, 2012
This study investigated the relations among preservice elementary teachers' ideas about evolution, their understanding of basic science concepts and college science coursework. Forty-two percent of 240 participants did not accept the theory of human evolution, but held inconsistent ideas about related topics, such as co-existence of humans and…
Descriptors: Evolution, Preservice Teachers, Plate Tectonics, Paleontology