Figure 4From: Scientific consensus and social controversy: exploring relationships between students’ conceptions of the nature of science, biological evolution, and global climate change Relationship between changes in students’ attitudes towards GCC and conceptions about NOS. At an alpha of 0.1 1, changes in how important the issue of GCC was to students had a weak positive correlation with changes in nature of science conceptions, measured by the normalized gains of total scores on the TSSI. The value of r indicated in the figure (0.087), is Pearson’s correlation coefficient for the two variables.Back to article page