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Baytelman, Andreani; Loizou, Theonitsa; Hadjiconstantinou, Salomi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
This study researches relationships between 12th-grade students' epistemological beliefs towards science and their conceptual understanding of evolution by natural selection. Forty-two 12th-grade students in a suburban high school in Cyprus, who participated in a biology course, completed measures of their: (1) epistemological beliefs towards…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High School Seniors, Beliefs, Scientific Concepts
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Marsteller, Robert B.; Bodzin, Alec M. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2015
An online curriculum about biological evolution was designed to promote increased student content knowledge and evidentiary reasoning. A feasibility study was conducted with 77 rural high school biology students who learned with the online biological evolution unit. Data sources included the Biological Evolution Assessment Measure (BEAM), an…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Biology, Evolution
Smist, J. M.; Barkman, R. C. – 1996
The goal of this research was to determine the effectiveness of a middle school science curriculum designed to inspire students to think about science through studying the patterns of humans. The curriculum focuses on human behavior, evolution, ecology, and performance and is based on the notion that pattern recognition is highly correlated with…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Ecology, Educational Research, Evolution