{"id":656,"date":"2008-07-19T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=656"},"modified":"2008-08-30T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:24:01","slug":"a-theory-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"A theory in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glenn Branch, of the National Center for Science Education, used Florida as a backdrop for a recent journal article about the history of the word theory<\/a> when used in reference to evolution, and how confusion over that word affects education today.<\/p>\n

It is not enough simply to explain the distinction between the vernacular and scientific uses of the word. As Brian Alters and Sandra Alters explain, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153student misconceptions\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 are not easily changed.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In learning evolutionary concepts in particular, students appear to need an extended exposure to and interaction with these concepts for growth in their understanding to occur.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glenn Branch, of the National Center for Science Education, used Florida as a backdrop for a recent journal article about the history of the word theory when used in reference to evolution, and how confusion over that word affects education … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-aA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":445,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=445","url_meta":{"origin":656,"position":0},"title":"Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk about theories","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Joe Wolf, president of Florida Citizens for Science, had heard that the Department of Education was shopping around the idea of inserting the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153theory\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the new draft of the state science standards wherever evolution is mentioned. 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