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Download full textSilva Bautista, Jesús; Herrera Escobar, Venazir; Corona Miranda, Rodolfo – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The present work proposes a psychological study via beliefs, about the origin of life, death, and life after death. Beliefs have played a decisive role in the development of humanity, from the primitive man who gave to the unknown divine forces, the judgments of the Holy Inquisition in the Medieval Age, the impact provoked by the conviction that…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Death, Age Differences, Foreign Countries
Bautista, Jesús Silva; Escobar, Venazir Herrera; Miranda, Rodolfo Corona – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The variety of explanations to questions about the origin of life, life after death or about the role itself of being in the world are built on the rational reflection that integrates the ideology of human beings as well as less rational practices and more emotional ones than in the whole nourish what has been called "beliefs".…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Likert Scales, Factor Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Direct linkMpeta, M.; de Villiers, J. J. R.; Fraser, W. J. – Journal of Biological Education, 2015
One of the major causes of the problems affecting evolution education is a lack of acceptance of this concept, particularly by some people who have strongly entrenched religious beliefs. This paper reports on a section of a study which explored the influence of the beliefs of learners in some secondary schools from the Vhembe District in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F.; Wenner, Julianne A. – American Biology Teacher, 2014
We assessed the performance of students with a self-reported conflict between their religious belief and the theory of evolution in two sections of a large introductory biology course (N = 373 students). Student performance was measured through pretest and posttest evolution essays and multiple- choice (MC) questions (evolution-related and…
Descriptors: Evolution, Religion, Conflict, Beliefs
Smith, Carlen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine relationships between New Jersey biology teachers' personal characteristics and religious backgrounds and the time spent and approach to teaching evolution. The research instrument chosen was a cross-sectional survey. Survey questions were presented in various forms: fill in, single response, Likert…
Descriptors: Evolution, Religion, Biology, Teaching Methods
Moore, Randy; Cotner, Sehoya; Bates, Alex – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2009
Students whose high school biology course included evolution but not creationism knew more about evolution when they entered college than did students whose courses included evolution plus creationism or whose courses included neither evolution nor creationism. Similarly, students who believed that their high school biology classes were the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Biology, Secondary School Science, Evolution
