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

Table 4 Binary logistic regression estimates predicting typology classification (each model estimated independently; results used to generate Fig. 6)

	Evo-friendly	Mixed	Avoidance	Creationism
	ß/se/p	ß/se/p	ß/se/p	ß/se/p
College courses in biology	0.095	− 0.061	− 0.116	0.037
	(0.094)	(0.113)	(0.119)	(0.181)
	0.312	0.592	0.331	0.836
College courses in earth sciences	− 0.024	0.123	− 0.021	− 0.100
	(0.066)	(0.083)	(0.092)	(0.147)
	0.713	0.139	0.817	0.495
College courses in science teaching methods	0.039	0.006	− 0.077	− 0.013
	(0.068)	(0.091)	(0.094)	(0.156)
	0.567	0.947	0.413	0.935
College courses focused on evolution	0.102	− 0.044	0.055	− 0.518
	(0.092)	(0.119)	(0.124)	(0.212)
	0.271	0.712	0.656	0.015*
College courses with some evolution	0.261	− 0.217	− 0.18	− 0.242
	(0.066)	(0.086)	(0.082)	(0.139)
	0.000*	0.012*	0.029*	0.082
Methods courses covering PBL	− 0.131	0.242	− 0.063	0.096
	(0.079)	(0.099)	(0.113)	(0.189)
	0.100	0.015*	0.575	0.611
Methods courses covering controversial topics	− 0.14	− 0.103	0.18	0.381
	(0.097)	(0.122)	(0.140)	(0.169)
	0.150	0.398	0.199	0.024*
Under 10 years seniority (omitted)
10–19 years seniority	− 0.693	0.271	1.01	0.288
	(0.252)	(0.319)	(0.385)	(0.574)
	0.006*	0.396	0.009*	0.616
20+ years seniority	− 0.482	− 0.118	0.965	0.297
	(0.259)	(0.342)	(0.379)	(0.543)
	0.063	0.73	0.011*	0.585
Female	0.038	− 0.046	0.125	− 0.346
	(0.185)	(0.246)	(0.260)	(0.374)
	0.837	0.853	0.631	0.355
Not based upon NGSS (omitted)
Based upon NGSS	− 0.069	− 0.009	0.004	0.366
	(0.223)	(0.295)	(0.305)	(0.416)
	0.756	0.976	0.990	0.379
Adopted NGSS	0.107	0.013	− 0.251	0.109
	(0.228)	(0.299)	(0.304)	(0.541)
	0.638	0.965	0.410	0.841
Constant	0.287	− 1.743	− 1.643	− 2.223
	(0.470)	(0.602)	(0.572)	(0.914)
	0.542	0.004*	0.004*	0.015*
N	708	708	708	708

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