{"id":1025,"date":"2009-05-01T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2009-06-27T13:47:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:47:01","slug":"biology-students-do-pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Biology students do pay attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, high school biology teachers, students are paying attention to you. What you teach and how you teach it really can influence how kids view evolution and creationism, according to a recently published study<\/a>. The study questioned introductory biology students at the college level concerning their views on evolution and also asked them how much the subject was covered in high school courses. They were also asked if creationism was taught in high school.<\/p>\n

Students whose high school biology class included creationism (with or without evolution) were more likely to accept creationist views as entering college students. Similarly, students exposed to evolutionism but not creationism were more likely to accept evolution in college. For example, 72 to 78 percent of students exposed to evolution only agreed that it is scientifically valid while 57 to 59 percent of students who were exposed to creationism agreed that it can be validated.<\/p>\n

“I’ve long known that many biology teachers teach creationism, but was surprised to learn they have such a strong impact,” said Randy Moore, professor of biology and lead author. “It’s unfortunate that so many teachers think their religious beliefs are science. Teachers who don’t teach evolution deny students the understanding of one of the greatest principles in history.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That story is a bit confusing to me, though. This paragraph:<\/p>\n

About two thirds of students from both groups said their high school biology class included evolution and not creationism. Only 1 to 2 percent of classes covered creationism and not evolution. And 6 to 13 percent of classes did not cover either evolution or creationism. But 29 percent of majors and 21 percent of non-majors said their high school biology class covered both evolution and creationism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Doesn’t match up with this sentence:<\/p>\n

However, it still remains overall that only 28-37% of high school biology teachers keep a strict science basis for human evolution …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two thirds had evolution without creationism and yet only 28-37% of the teachers kept a strict science basis for human evolution? I don’t get it. Unfortunately, I can’t access the study itself. Can someone help me understand this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, high school biology teachers, students are paying attention to you. What you teach and how you teach it really can influence how kids view evolution and creationism, according to a recently published study. 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