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The Mismatch among Students' Views about Nature of Science, Acceptance of Evolution, and Evolutionary Science Understandings
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Cavallo, Ann M. L.; White, Kevin J.; McCall, David – Science Education Review, 2011
This study explored interrelationships among high school students' views about nature of science (NOS), acceptance of evolution, and conceptual understanding of evolution, and the extent to which these may have shifted from pre- to post-instruction on evolutionary theory. Eighty-one students enrolled in ninth-grade Biology responded to…
Descriptors: Evolution, Scientific Principles, High School Students, Teaching Methods
Seeing May Not Mean Believing: Examining Students' Understandings & Beliefs in Evolution
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Cavallo, Ann M. L.; McCall, David – American Biology Teacher, 2008
Science education currently has incomplete understandings of potential relationships between students' beliefs in Nature of Science (NOS) and evolution, and how these beliefs may be related to scientific understandings of evolution. Because of evolution's prominence in science education, curricula decisions, and the future of science teaching and…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Biology, Science Teachers, Science Education