Science Standards, Science Achievement, and Attitudes About Evolution

Autor:	Charlie M. Belin, Brian Kisida
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Science instruction media_common.quotation_subject Educational quality Teaching method Science education Education State policy Student achievement Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education Quality (business) Statistical analysis Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Educational Policy. 29:1053-1075
ISSN:	1552-3896 0895-9048
DOI:	10.1177/0895904814550069
Popis:	This article explores the relationships between (a) the quality of state science standards and student science achievement, (b) the public’s belief in teaching evolution and the quality of state standards, and (c) the public’s belief in teaching evolution and student science achievement. Using multiple measures, we find no evidence of a relationship between the quality of a state’s science standards and student science achievement. We also examine the relationship between state-level beliefs about evolution and student achievement. Here, we find a positive and consistent relationship between a state’s acceptance of evolution and student science achievement. Our results suggest that the attitudes that the public has toward evolutionary science are strongly related to student science achievement—more so than the quality of state science standards.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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