The impact of direct challenges to student endorsement of teleological reasoning on understanding and acceptance of natural selection: an exploratory study

Table 3 Results from a multiple linear regression of student pre-semester understanding of natural selection (CINS)

	B	SE B
Intercept	15.10	3.45
Parental attitude-evolution	− 0.004	0.35
Student religiosity	− 0.16	0.31
ISEA-HE_pre	0.004	0.031
Prior educational exposure	0.11	0.30
Teleological reasoning_pre	− 2.18^†	0.481
Adjusted R²	0.35

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