Table 7 Topics involving participant teachers’ education about topics involving cladograms
Doubts and/or new concepts for teachers during the course (n = 47) Answers expressed when teachers were asked: “Were there any concepts approached during the meeting that you did not know or that you have some difficulty with? If yes, what was the concept?” and “Do you have any doubts?”) | |||
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Categories | Description | Key examples | Teachers (%) |
Cladogram interpretation | Difficulties or unknown concepts involving cladogram interpretation in general | “I have difficulty with phylogenetics content in general, mostly cladogram interpretation. The proposed activities helped me remember it” | 23 (40.4%) |
Concepts about Phylogenetic Systematics | Difficulties or unfamiliarity involving specific concepts about phylogenetics, such as monophyletic and paraphyletic groups, apomorphy, homoplasy, among others | “The concepts of monophyletic and paraphyletic groups […]. I had seen these concepts a long time ago, in my undergraduate education. After that, because they are not used in the classroom and are not present in textbooks, I forgot about them” | 21 (36.8%) |
Cladogram construction | Difficulties or unknown concepts involving cladogram construction | “I learned to interpret and, mostly, to visualize the construction of the phylogenetic matrix in such a didactical way that will allow me to improve my classroom practice” | 13 (22.8%) |
Total | Â | Â | 57 (100%) |
Topics regarding cladograms in teacher education (n = 68) Answers expressed when teachers were asked: “During your teacher education (preservice or in-service), did you learn about cladograms?” | |||
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Categories | Description | Key examples | Teachers (%) |
Learned about cladograms | Teacher reported having learned about topics involving cladograms during teacher education | “In my teacher training I was presented in a subtle way, the terms are not unknown, but not all of them are understood” | 59 (86.8%) |
Did not learn about cladograms | Teacher reported don’t learned about topics involving cladograms during teacher education | “No, this was the first time that I participated in a course that approached this theme” | 9 (13.2%) |
Total | Â | Â | 68 (100%) |
Topics regarding cladograms in teacher education (n = 68) Answers expressed when teachers were asked: “During your teacher education (preservice or in-service), did you discuss topics regarding Science/Biology education using cladograms?” | |||
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Categories | Description | Key examples | Teachers (%) |
Did not discussed topics involving teaching about cladograms | Teacher reported not discussing topics involving teaching about cladograms during teacher education | “In my teacher training, it was approached more about the importance of teaching Biology from an evolutionary perspective than it was given a tool for actually doing it in a classroom. In my in-service teacher education, this has been the first course that has this focus” | 39 (60.1%) |
Discussed topics involving teaching about cladograms | Teacher reported discussing topics involving teaching about cladograms during teacher education | “The University offered, in "Biology Weeks", lectures and workshops, and there were always activities of this kind for Zoology and Paleontology areas, in which topics about cladograms were approached, as well as its use in Science and Biology education” | 27 (40.9%) |
Total | Â | Â | 66 (100%) |