Community College Student Understanding and Perceptions of Evolution.

ABSTRACT: Learning about evolution is a foundational part of biology education, but most current studies that explore college student evolution education are conducted at universities. However, community college students tend to be more diverse in characteristics shown to be related to evolution education outcomes. To explore how studies involving university students may generalize to community college students, we surveyed students from seven community college (n = 202) and nine university (n = 2288) classes. We measured students' evolution interest, acceptance, and understanding, and for religious students, we measured their perceived conflict between their religions and evolution. Controlling for state and major, we found that community college students had similar levels of evoluti

SUBMITTER: Barnes ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9582820 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature