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Influences On Biology Students' Acceptance Of Evolution
… are numerous variables that influence a person's acceptance of evolution. Variables generally fit into categories of school/knowlege-based understanding and cultural influences. This study investigated those variables that influence students' degreee of acceptance of evolution and determined the …
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Academic Factors that Predict Community College Students’ Acceptance of Evolution
… disagreement in the United States about with how evolution education should be dealt, as the acceptance of evolution is controversial among the general public of the United States. Furthermore, although a plethora of research has been conducted to understand which factors influence the …
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The effect of cognitive bias video instruction on high school biology student acceptance of evolution: Implications for teachers and educational leaders
… decision-making. This study is the first of its kind to link these preferential thinking patterns to high school biology students' acceptance of evolution. At five urban high schools, 164 high school biology students were surveyed using a new instrument called the Cognitive Bias Assessment …
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Evolution Acceptance, Religiosity, and Nature of Science in an Undergraduate Population
<p>Decades of research into the acceptance of evolutionary biology have revealed a number of factors that are related to an individual’s choice to accept or reject evolutionary biology. This work seeks to extend that work in the following key ways: (1) Use a longitudinal time frame, along with …
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Postsecondary Students’ Perceptions Toward Accepting and Understanding Biological Evolution: A Qualitative Metasynthesis
<p>The purpose of this qualitative meta-synthesis is the exploration and analysis of postsecondary students’ perceptions towards accepting and understanding evolution. Evolution as a process and theory is a foundation for understanding the biological sciences. Within the scientific and educational …
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Competing for the Minds of America: Does the Teaching of Evolution in High Schools Promote a Naturalistic Worldview?
The debate over evolution has been raging in America's public schools for the past century. This has led to numerous court cases that moved our teachers from teaching creationism in classrooms to today's curriculum of evolution only. Scientists hold evolution as an overarching theory that ties …
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Science and religion in 21st century America : a sociological perspective.
… theoretical miscalculations in the understanding of science, religion, and their connections from a sociological perspective. Although this topic has been of great interest to classical and contemporary theorists in the social sciences, and has been examined using institutional approaches, there …