The impact of direct challenges to student endorsement of teleological reasoning on understanding and acceptance of natural selection: an exploratory study

Abstract Background Teleological reasoning is a cognitive bias purported to disrupt student ability to understand natural selection. Few studies have described pedagogical efforts to decrease student endorsement of teleological reasoning and measure the effects of this attenuation on the understandi...

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Main Authors: Jason R. Wingert, Gennie M. Bassett, Caitlin E. Terry, Jimin Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-04-01
Series:Evolution: Education and Outreach
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-022-00162-6