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

Table 5 Results from a multiple linear regression of student post-semester understanding of natural selection (CINS)

	B	SE B
Intercept	3.34	3.59
Parental attitude-evolution	0.23	0.24
Student religiosity	− 0.36	0.25
ISEA-HE_post	0.013	0.026
Prior educational exposure	0.081	0.23
Teleological reasoning_post	0.35	0.41
CINS-_pre	0.51^‡	0.11
Adjusted R²	0.45

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