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From: Scientific consensus and social controversy: exploring relationships between students’ conceptions of the nature of science, biological evolution, and global climate change

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The relationship between changes in students’ NOS conceptions and evolutionary attitudes. Changes in NOS conceptions, as measured by the normalized gains of total scores on the TSSI, are significantly positively correlated with changes in attitudes towards evolution, measured by normalized gains of total scores on the MATE tool. The value of r indicated in the figure (0.355), is Pearson’s correlation coefficient for the two variables.

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Evolution: Education and Outreach

ISSN: 1936-6434

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