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Direct linkEvangelia Mavrikaki; Giulia Realdon; Tuomas Aivelo; Ani Bajrami; Çiçek Dilek Bakanay; Anna Beniermann; Jelena Blagojevic; Egle Butkeviciene; Bento Cavadas; Costantina Cossu; Dragana Cvetkovic; Szymon M. Drobniak; Zelal Özgür Durmus; Radka Marta Dvoráková; Marcel Eens; Esra Eret; Seckin Eroglu; Malgorzata Anna Gazda; Martha Georgiou; Neil J. Gostling; Tanja Gregorcic; Vanda Janštová; Tania Jenkins; Anttoni Kervinen; Konstantinos Korfiatis; Paul Kuschmierz; Ádám Z. Lendvai; Joelyn de Lima; Fundime Miri; Teresa Nogueira; Andreas Panayides; Sylvia Paolucci; Penelope Papadopoulou; Patrícia Pessoa; Rianne Pinxten; Joana Rios Rocha; Andrea Fernández Sánchez; Merav Siani; Elvisa Sokoli; Bruno Sousa; Panagiotis K. Stasinakis; Gregor Torkar; Asta Valackiene; Máté Varga; Lucía Vázquez Ben; Anat Yarden; Xana Sá-Pinto – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The contribution of school curricula to public understanding and acceptance of evolution is still mostly unknown, due to the scarcity of studies that compare the learning goals present in different curricula. To overcome this lack of data we analysed 19 school curricula (18 European and one from Israel) to study the differences regarding the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Evolution
Deborah Bernhard; Markus Wilhelm; Dominik Helbling – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Numerous studies have shown that a considerable number of students do not accept the theory of evolution, prompting the scientific community to seek ways to improve how lessons on evolution are designed in order to promote students' acceptance. A crucial factor identified in many studies is students' comprehension of the nature of science and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High School Teachers, Evolution
Yun-Ping Ge; Wen-Jin Yang; Hak-Ping Tam – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
This study based on cognitive and social semiotic theories investigates whether the influence of specific features of instructional representation from adolescent textbook images could last until adulthood in certain cultures. Two cultural groups, Indonesian (n = 61) and Taiwanese (n = 60) college students, were recruited from a public Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Biology, Science Instruction, Evolution
Mantelas, Nikos; Mavrikaki, Evangelia – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
We aimed to examine the acceptance of evolution and its relationship with religiosity among Greek biology university students and whether the attendance of an evolutionary biology course could affect the acceptance of evolution. In Greece the teaching of evolution has been downgraded from secondary education for years and Greeks exhibit a strong…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Evolution, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Christensen, Dana; Lombardi, Doug – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to quantitatively assess the integration of computational thinking with learning about biological evolution. Specifically, we investigated the effectiveness of a framework from a recently developed learning progression that emphasises the complex nature of teaching both computational thinking and biological evolution.…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Biology, Evolution
Corrochano, Diego; Gómez-Gonçalves, Alejandro – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study uses a one-group pre-test and post-test design to describe the mental models of geologic time held by a group of Spanish pre-service primary teachers, before and after an instructional intervention that introduced the work with different timescales. The questionnaire was given before instruction and five weeks after it. It consists of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Schemata (Cognition), Scientific Concepts
Borgerding, Lisa A.; Kaya, Fatma – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
This mixed methods study explores college biology students' perceptions of the utility of evolution knowledge. In Phase I, 14 college biology students from an upper-level Evolution course were interviewed about their evolution acceptance and perceptions of the utility of evolutionary knowledge. In Phase II, findings from Phase I were used to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Biology, Evolution
Stahi-Hitin, Reut; Yarden, Anat – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Evolution is one of the most controversial scientific issues worldwide, mainly because of the presumed conflict with religion, which also arises in school biology classes. Here, we surveyed biology teachers from different Jewish sectors in Israel about their experiences teaching evolution and their perspective on relating to students' religious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, High School Students, Science Instruction
Green, Kathryn; Delgado, Cesar – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Evolution is an essential underlying concept in biology. Previous research demonstrates that many obstacles exist that prevent successful teaching and learning about evolution. This research study used the theoretical framework of cultural border crossing and its underlying cognitive explanation, collateral learning, to design an intervention for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Biology
Kloser, Matthew; Floyd, Catherine; Spang, Chloe; Rogers, Megan; Ottone, Nicholas; Rice, Matthew – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
While expository texts are an efficient and dominant genre used by science teachers in the United States, they generally lack justification for their claims and fail to reflect science as practice. In contrast, epistemically considerate texts detail specific scientific experiments, providing the reader insight into the methods and data of a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Group Discussion
Kuschmierz, Paul; Beniermann, Anna; Graf, Dittmar – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
In evolution education, misconceptions about evolutionary concepts impact students' learning. Much research exists on assessing knowledge about evolution using different instruments. The current article introduces the KAEVO 2.0 instrument, which includes various evolutionary aspects representing microevolution and macroevolution. The introduced…
Descriptors: Science Education, Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
Guilfoyle, Liam; Erduran, Sibel – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
There is substantial body of literature in science education focusing on students' understanding of the theory of evolution by natural selection. However, despite decades of research on the evolution versus creationism debate there is still widespread concern that particular misconceptions about evolution persist. The study aimed to recalibrate…
Descriptors: Evolution, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Persuasive Discourse
Alred, Ashley R.; Doherty, Jennifer H.; Hartley, Laurel M.; Harris, Cornelia B.; Dauer, Jenny M. – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
An understanding of biological variation is important for understanding ecological interactions, ecosystem function, and species' response to environmental change. Biological variation is essential to species survival because natural selection acts upon the phenotypic variation within a population: the more varied the population's genetic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts
Ha, Minsu; Wei, Xin; Wang, Jian; Hou, Dan; Nehm, Ross H. – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The goal of our study was to examine a large (>400), cross-sectional sample of Chinese pre-service biology teachers (PBTs) in order to document their evolution acceptance levels, evolution knowledge, and evolutionary reasoning patterns. This approach was taken in order to better understand the degree to which particular evolutionary reasoning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Biology
Pinxten, Rianne; Vandervieren, Ellen; Janssenswillen, Paul – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Secondary school teaching of evolution through natural selection is very important because for most people, it is the only formal introduction to the scientific understanding of this theory. However, there are major concerns over its unsatisfactory teaching. In several European countries, including the Flanders region in Belgium, natural selection…
Descriptors: Evolution, Biology, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
