Seeing May Not Mean Believing: Examining Students' Understandings & Beliefs in Evolution

Autor/inn/en	Cavallo, Ann M. L.; McCall, David
Titel	Seeing May Not Mean Believing: Examining Students' Understandings & Beliefs in Evolution
Quelle	In: American Biology Teacher, 70 (2008) 9, S.522-530 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-7685
Schlagwörter	Scientific Principles; Biology; Science Teachers; Science Education; Evolution; Student Attitudes; Beliefs; Grade 9; High School Students; Questionnaires; Attitude Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biologie; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Schülerverhalten; Belief; Glaube; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Fragebogen; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung
Abstract	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 learning, it is important to gain more information on teaching and learning evolution through research. This study attempts to contribute to the knowledge base surrounding evolution in science education by exploring interrelationships among students' beliefs about the nature of science and evolution, and their scientific conceptual understandings of this theory. This study was conducted in a suburban/rural high school freshman campus located in the midwestern part of the United States. The students in the study were those enrolled in three ninth-grade biology classes. The data was collected by having students complete questionnaires regarding their beliefs about the nature of science and their beliefs about evolution. Results show that student beliefs did not change during the course of the instruction. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10