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Table 6 Percentage of participants (n = 220) who stated particular misconceptions at pretest and posttest

From: Teaching natural selection in early elementary classrooms: can a storybook intervention reduce teleological misunderstandings?

Type of misconception

Pretest

Posttest

Any misconception

85%

23%

Transformation

55%

12%

Development

43%

11%

Basic teleological

25%

5%

Effort

3%

2%

Agent

1%

<1%

  1. Note: Participants could express multiple misconceptions. A child who expressed both a transformation misconception and a basic teleological misconception would be counted in both rows. Please see Table 7 for numbers of children in mutually exclusive categories
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Evolution: Education and Outreach

ISSN: 1936-6434

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