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Snakes and Eels and Dogs! Oh, My! Evaluating High School Students' Tree-Thinking Skills: An Entry Point to Understanding Evolution
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Catley, Kefyn M.; Phillips, Brenda C.; Novick, Laura R. – Research in Science Education, 2013
The biological community is currently undertaking one its greatest scientific endeavours, that of constructing the Tree of Life, a phylogeny intended to be an evidenced-based, predictive road map of evolutionary relationships among Earth's biota. Unfortunately, we know very little about how such diagrams are understood, interpreted, or used…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, High School Students, Grade 10, Misconceptions