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Direct linkNehm, Ross H.; Beggrow, Elizabeth P.; Opfer, John E.; Ha, Minsu – American Biology Teacher, 2012
Studies of students' thinking about natural selection have revealed that the scenarios in which students reason evoke different types, magnitudes, and arrangements of knowledge elements and misconceptions. Diagnostic tests are needed that probe students' thinking across a representative array of evolutionary contexts. The ACORNS is a diagnostic…
Descriptors: Evolution, Diagnostic Tests, Misconceptions, Inferences
