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From: Scientific consensus and social controversy: exploring relationships between students’ conceptions of the nature of science, biological evolution, and global climate change

Figure 4

Relationship between changes in students’ attitudes towards GCC and conceptions about NOS. At an alpha of 0.1 1, changes in how important the issue of GCC was to students had a weak positive correlation with changes in nature of science conceptions, measured by the normalized gains of total scores on the TSSI. The value of r indicated in the figure (0.087), is Pearson’s correlation coefficient for the two variables.

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Evolution: Education and Outreach

ISSN: 1936-6434

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