What’s effective and ineffective in preparing high school biology educators to teach evolution? Evidence from a representative national U.S. survey

Table 1 Multinomial logistic regression estimates predicting evolution beliefs (results used to generate Fig. 2)

	Humans evolved. God had no part in the process			God created humans in the last 2000 years
	ß	Std Err	p	ß	Std Err	p
College courses in biology	− 0.007	(0.103)	0.947	0.025	(0.168)	0.880
College courses in earth sciences	0.022	(0.065)	0.730	0.036	(0.113)	0.751
College courses in science teaching methods	− 0.013	(0.067)	0.850	− 0.078	(0.110)	0.480
College courses focused on evolution	0.121	(0.087)	0.163	− 0.229	(0.188)	0.222
College courses with some evolution	0.091	(0.069)	0.189	− 0.050	(0.113)	0.657
Methods courses covering PBL	− 0.121	(0.086)	0.158	0.009	(0.116)	0.935
Methods courses covering controversial topics	− 0.021	(0.099)	0.831	0.129	(0.154)	0.400
Under 10 years seniority
10–19 years seniority	0.046	(0.239)	0.848	1.537	(0.523)	0.003*
20+ years seniority	− 0.292	(0.246)	0.236	1.382	(0.524)	0.009*
Female	− 0.209	(0.186)	0.262	− 0.198	(0.295)	0.502
Not based upon NGSS
Based upon NGSS	0.267	(0.236)	0.257	0.198	(0.358)	0.581
Adopted NGSS	0.421	(0.230)	0.067	− 0.099	(0.393)	0.802
Constant	0.006	(0.494)	0.991	− 2.203	(0.931)	0.018*
N	661

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