As students learn biology at different levels of education, their tenacious and inaccurate prior
conceptions pose a challenge to conceptual change. Educators and researchers have …

Influenza is an important public health issue and schools play an important part in
preventing influenza outbreaks. However, little is known about teachers' knowledge and …

Evolution by natural selection is the fundamental backbone of the life sciences. Therefore, it
is important for teacher education programs to ensure graduates possess a strong …

Předkládaná studie mapuje mediální obraz vybraných geologických pojmů vázaných na
výukový tematický celek Historický vývoj organismů na Zemi a zaměřuje se na jejich …

Despite frequent litigious interactions between science and religion, when it comes to the
teaching of evolution, relatively little is known about public school teachers' understanding of …

At the interface between atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere, this theme chapter
covers content that is societally crucial but publicly controversial and fraught by …

Background Many students enter science classrooms with misconceptions about scientific
principles. One of the most perceived controversial scientific principle for students is …

Evolution is a key concept of biology, fundamental to understand the world and address
important societal problems, but research studies show that it is still not widely understood …

Evolution education represents the greatest challenge to scientific literacy in the United
States. Long accepted as the foundational concept of biology, in the public realm evolution …

Evolutionary theory is fundamental to biology, yet evolution instruction in high schools has
often been unsatisfactory. How or whether high school biology teachers teach evolution is …