European First-Year University Students Accept Evolution but Lack Substantial Knowledge about it: A Standardized European Cross-Country Assessment

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European First-Year University Students Accept Evolution but Lack Substantial Knowledge about it: A Standardized European Cross-Country AssessmentAuthor(s)
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Kuschmierz, P., Beniermann, A., Bergmann, A. et al. European first-year university students accept evolution but lack substantial knowledge about it: a standardized European cross-country assessment. Evo Edu Outreach 14, 17 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-021-00158-8
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[Abstract] Investigations of evolution knowledge and acceptance and their relation are central to evolution education
research. Ambiguous results in this field of study demonstrate a variety of measuring issues, for instance differently
theorized constructs, or a lack of standardized methods, especially for cross-country comparisons. In particular,
meaningful comparisons across European countries, with their varying cultural backgrounds and education systems,
are rare, often include only few countries, and lack standardization. To address these deficits, we conducted a standardized
European survey, on 9200 first-year university students in 26 European countries utilizing a validated, comprehensive
questionnaire, the “Evolution Education Questionnaire”, to assess evolution acceptance and knowledge, as
well as influencing factors on evolution acceptance.
Keywords
Evolution
Acceptance
Knowledge
Multilevel modeling
Socioscientific issues
Religious faith
Higher education
Europe
Assessment
Attitude
Acceptance
Knowledge
Multilevel modeling
Socioscientific issues
Religious faith
Higher education
Europe
Assessment
Attitude
Description
Artigo actualizado coas correccións publicadas o 28/06/2022 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-022-00168-0) Os arquivos suplementarios poden atoparse na seguinte páxina: https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-021-00158-8#Sec29
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