Table 1 Selected intervention studies with science teacher participants from the literature

Scharmann and Harris (1992)

Midwestern USA

90 h

10-item statement, 5-point Likert-type

5-item statement, 5-point Likert-type (Johnson and Peeples 1987)

29-item statement, 3-point Likert-type (Kimball 1967); 20-item statement, 5-point Likert-type (Johnson and Peeples 1987)

YES (Scharmann 1994)

Scharmann (1994)

Midwestern USA

84 h

10-item statement, 5-point Likert-type

5-item, 5-point Likert-type (Johnson and Peeples 1987)

29-item, 3-point Likert-type (Kimball 1967); 20-item, 5-point Likert-type (Johnson and Peeples 1987)

NO

Firenze (1997)

Northeastern USA

64 h

1-item, self-report Likert-type

n/a

n/a

NO

Crawford et al. (2005)

Northeastern USA

12 h

Open-response instrument (Bishop and Anderson 1990)

n/a

VNOS (Lederman et al. 2002)

NO

Nehm and Schonfeld (2007)

Northeastern USA

14 weeks

Open-response instrument (Bishop and Anderson 1990) and evolution content knowledge test (Nehm and Schonfeld 2007)

1 multiple-choice item

9-item, Likert-type (Nehm and Schonfeld 2007)

YES (unpublished)

Nadelson and Sinatra (2010)

n/a

~1 h^b

Concept inventory of natural selection (Anderson et al. 2002)

Measure of acceptance of the theory of evolution (Rutledge and Warden 1999)

Scientific attitude inventory II (Moore and Foy 1997)

NO

Southerland and Nadelson (2012)

n/a

15 weeks

CINS

MUM

MATE

I-SEA

VNOS

NO