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Table 5 Summary of school data for each teacher who taught using the Adaptation to Altitude, Evolution of Human Skin Color, or Malaria curriculum mini-units

From: Using human case studies to teach evolution in high school A.P. biology classrooms

Mini-unit

Teacher #

School type

Low SES (%)

URM (%)

CRS

N

Altitude

4

Public

4

12

None

51

Altitude

6

Public

8

8

None

39

Altitude

10

Private

4

10

1

18

Altitude

11

Public

13

11

1

52

Altitude

14

Public

20

13

2

28

Malaria

3

Public

11

33

1

24

Malaria

12

Public

30

52

None

43

Skin color

7

Public

22

30

None

23

Skin color

9

Public

82

81

1

15

Skin color

13

Private

3

10

2

11

  1. Teacher number refers to an original teacher number from the entire TEtHE project. Low SES indicates the percentage of students at the school who qualify for free or reduced price lunch URM indicates the percentage of students at the school who identify as African American or Hispanic—two groups generally considered underrepresented minorities in STEM fields. CRS indicates whether the teacher implemented Classroom Activity 1, Classroom Activity 2, or neither classroom activity. N is the number of students from which data were collected