In order to get first indications about the interrelationship between the declarative and procedural knowledge of trainee teachers about the facets of professional knowledge on evolution, we additionally integrated a short questionnaire with evolution-specific questions into the SI. This questionnaire on evo...
The central concern of this qualitative-reconstructive case study is to describe and better understand how preservice and in-service biology teachers are enacting their professional vision regarding student alternative conceptions and addressing them in evolution class. For data collection, a video clip w...
lxthe probability of surviving from birth to age classx,mxthe expected number of offspring in age classx, andrthe population growth rate or Malthusian parameter. The equation sums the probabilities of survival and reproduction over the entire lifetime of the individuals in the population and can ...
In mammals, the cerebral cortex represents the most important anatomical structure for cognition1. As such, it is the focal point of a large body of neuroscientific research, investigating its numerous behavioural correlates as well as its exceptional evolutionary expansion and progressively extended onto...
theme is: Evolution and Development: From Life to Mind. Research at the intersection of evolution and development on features of living systems (e.g., anatomy, behavior, cognition) prompts a variety of philosophy of science ques...
(Nehm and Reilly2007; Lovely and Kondrick2008; Cunningham and Wescott2009; Jakobi2010). Surveys of American public school teachers also find wide variation in knowledge, belief, and amount of class time devoted to evolution (Rutledge and Warden2000; Rutledge and Mitchell2002; Trani2004; Bowman...
even among students who accept the validity of biological evolution. We also found that confidence in one’s knowledge of science is not related to actual understanding. We advise instructors in biological anthropology courses to survey their students in order to identify the class-specific scientific...
cratonic Proterozoic terranes (ca. 2.5–1 Ga) underlain by refertilized Archean (Griffin and O'Reilly, 2007; Begg et al., 2009) or unusual, highly-depleted Proterozoic SCLM (Schmädicke et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2018), which host diamond-rich provinces and world-class deposits, e...
using two indices that quantify complexity as the numerical richness and proportional distribution of vertebrae across presacral regions and a third expressing the ratio between thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. We address three questions. First, we ask whether the distribution of complexity values in major...
”, where the majority of students indicated a large shift in the positive direction. Qualitative answers included phrases like “I have always agreed with evolution but I did not know how much of everyday life was affected by it.” and “I came into the class not knowing a lot about ...