Undergraduate Students' Attitudes Towards the Theory Of Evolution
Year: 2009
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The present study aims at investigating the attitudes of undergraduate students towards the theory of evolution (TOE). Even though the body of literature related TOE is abundant, there is limited conducted research in Turkey.The independent variables used in the present study are as follows: faculty, programme, graduated high school, evolution lesson, lesson including evolution, activity related to evolution, educational level of mother, educational level of father, participants' income, participants' families income, and the term described by participants' themselves. The total number of participants is 849 from two universities in Turkey. To measure of students' attitudes towards TOE , Rutledge & Sadler's (2007) survey is used. The reliability of scale (Cronbach ?) is .80.The results revealed that depending on faculty, evolution lesson, programme, the term described by participants' themselves, educational level of mother, educational level of father and participants' income variables, students scores change statistically significant at the level of .05. SUMMARY
Source: İlköğretim Online
Authors: Zeki APAYDIN, Hikmet Sürmeli
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2103754180