College Student Conceptions about Changes to Earth and Life over Time.

ABSTRACT: While interdisciplinary collaboration is desired among researchers, traditional science instruction generally results in science disciplines being taught as separate entities. This study focuses on student understanding of concepts at the intersection of two isolated disciplines-geoscience and bioscience-across two purposeful samples of college-aged students (United States, Germany). Specifically, we explored: 1) how students conceptualize large-scale biologic and geologic changes on Earth over deep time; 2) the relationship between student's conceptions and their understanding of evolutionary and geologic theories; and 3) how those conceptualizations explicate the need for integration of concepts within school curricula. Students were asked to respond to items about seven major evolutiona

SUBMITTER: Jaimes P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8711836 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature