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

Table 4 Spearman correlations among post-semester variables, assessed after presentation of course material

	Parental attitude	Student Religiosity	Evolution acceptance (I-SEA)	Prior education	Teleological reasoning
Parental attitude	–
Student religiosity	− 0.35^*	–
Evolution acceptance (I-SEA)	0.49^‡	− 0.50^‡	–
Prior education	0.28	− 0.03	0.41^†		–
Teleological reasoning	− 0.36^*	0.20	− 0.51^‡	− 0.37^*
Natural Selection Understanding (CINS)	0.28	− 0.39^†	0.39 ^†	0.18	− 0.38^†

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