Investigating the relationship between college students’ acceptance of evolution and tree thinking understanding

Table 1 Student scores pre- and post-instruction in a general education biology course with focus on tree thinking

Pair		Mean	n	SD	SEM	df	t	Sig (2-tailed)	Cohen’s d	Effect size r
1	Pre-MATE	64.93	92	13.817	1.441	91	0.978	0.331	0.074	0.037
1	Post-MATE	65.90	92	12.354	1.288	91	0.978	0.331	0.074	0.037
2	Pre-TTCI	5.46	92	2.959	0.309	91	2.254	0.027^a	0.294	0.145
2	Post-TTCI	6.37	92	3.240	0.338	91	2.254	0.027^a	0.294	0.145
3	Pre-NOA	1.40	92	1.130	0.118	91	2.427	0.017^a	0.365	0.179
3	Post-NOA	1.84	92	1.278	0.133	91	2.427	0.017^a	0.365	0.179

^aSignificance at <0.05.
MATE: Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (Rutledge and Sadler, 1999); NOA: questions related to the Nature of Acceptance of evolution as developed by authors; SD: Standard deviation; SEM: Standard error of the mean; TTCI: Tree thinking Concept Inventory (Naegle 2009).

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