Table 1 List of published instruments that measure understanding and/or acceptance of evolution reviewed in current paper
From: Applying measurement standards to evolution education assessment instruments
Instrument | Full name and brief description | Citation |
|---|---|---|
ECT | Evolution concept test Six items, combination of open ended and Likert-scale type Natural selection | Bishop and Anderson (1990) |
CINS | Concept inventory of natural selection Twenty multiple choice questions Natural selection | Anderson et al. (2002) |
MATE | Measure of acceptance of the theory of evolution Twenty-five-point Likert questions Acceptance of evolution | |
MUM | Measure of understanding of macroevolution Twenty-seven multiple choice & 1 free response Deep time, phylogenetics, speciation, fossils, nature of science | Nadelson and Southerland (2009) |
KEE | Knowledge of evolution exam Ten questions | Moore and Cotner (2009) |
EALS-long and short forms | Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey Long form: 104 Likert-scaled questions Short form: 64 Likert-scaled questions Religiosity, science understanding and attitudes as relates to evolution | Hawley et al. (2011) Short and Hawley (2012) |
ACORNS | Assessing contextual reasoning about nature selection Unlimited number of open-ended questions Natural selection, non-adaptive change | Nehm et al. (2012) |
I-SEA | Inventory of student acceptance of evolution Twenty-four items Microevolution, macroevolution, human evolution | Nadelson and Southerland (2012) |
EvoDevoCI | No full title Eleven multiple choice questions Evolutionary developmental biology | Perez et al. (2013) |
ATEEK | Assessment tool for evaluating evolution knowledge Four open-ended questions Genotype, phenotype, change in allele frequencies | White et al. (2013) |
GeDI | Genetic drift inventory Twenty-two agree/disagree statements Genetic drift | Price et al. (2014) |
GAENE | Generalized acceptance of evolution evaluation Thirteen Likert items Evolution acceptance | Smith et al. (2016) |
CANS | Concept assessment of natural selection Twenty-four multiple choice Natural selection | Kalinowski et al. (2016) |