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Nikola Synak; Nikola Šabíková; Radomír Masaryk – Science & Education, 2024
Studies consistently show the social impact of spreading epistemologically unfounded beliefs (or 'conspiracy beliefs'), including negative effects on public health. The present study identified correlations among epistemologically unfounded beliefs, authoritarianism, and scientific literacy in a representative sample of 303 Slovak secondary school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Misconceptions
Demetrio, Guilherme Ramos; Jacobina, Uedson Pereira; Barão, Kim Ribeiro – Science & Education, 2023
Evolutionary theory (ET) is the unifying theory of Life Sciences, but it is largely misunderstood and the target of dispute in many countries, mainly because of conflicts with religious beliefs. Brazil is a country with a culture that is deeply rooted belief in God. In this paper, we report a study in Brazil where we applied a 12-question…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Religious Factors, Religion
Fernández-Carro, Remo; Vílchez, José Eduardo; Vílchez-González, José Miguel; Ezquerra, Ángel – Science & Education, 2023
Do pre-service teachers have the same beliefs in superstitions and pseudoscience as the members of their generation? We expect so, because they are slightly different in at least two of the variables that explain differences, namely family income and level of studies, and also, normatively, because beliefs among teaching staff appear to be a key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Scientific Attitudes
Pre-Service Chemistry Teachers' Views about the Tentative and Durable Nature of Scientific Knowledge
Mueller, Stefan; Reiners, Christiane S. – Science & Education, 2023
With regard to current controversial public discussions about the credibility of scientific knowledge, it seems particularly important that students possess adequate ideas about the tentativeness of scientific knowledge, which is a key aspect of nature of science. However, international studies show that many pre-service science teachers tend to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Chemistry, Scientific Principles
Herman, Benjamin C.; Clough, Michael P.; Rao, Asha – Science & Education, 2022
Like all SSI, the COVID-19 pandemic requires decisions that are contentious, involve scientific thinking, and vary across social groups. This investigation determined how perceptions about COVID-19 science and sociocultural membership associate with 557 university biology students': (1) COVID-19 behaviors after stay-at-home orders and (2) support…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Science Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Saribas, Deniz; Çetinkaya, Ertan – Science & Education, 2021
Along with the COVID-19 outbreak, which has been a global threat for public health, the unconfirmed information about the pandemic in circulation has become another threat. Hence, it has become important to improve public understanding of science with a focus on explaining the nature of uncertainty in science and its impacts. The goal of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teachers, Misconceptions
Özbay, Hatice Esma; Köksal, Mustafa Serdar – Science & Education, 2021
The paper reports about an empirical study investigating the relationship between scientific epistemological beliefs, intellectual risk-taking in science learning and science achievement of middle school students via path analysis. The sample was composed of 2119 middle school students enrolled in public schools. Nearly half of the students…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Epistemology, Science Instruction, Science Achievement
Billingsley, Berry; Nassaji, Mehdi – Science & Education, 2021
Scientific advances, particularly in evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, present many challenges to religious and popular notions of personhood. This paper reports the first large-scale study on students' beliefs about the interactions between science and widely held beliefs about personhood. The paper…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students, Science Process Skills, Scientific Attitudes
Peñaloza, Gonzalo; El-Hani, Charbel N.; Mosquera-Suárez, Carlos Javier – Science & Education, 2021
Despite the importance of evolution to understand living phenomena, evolution teaching confronts several tensions, especially with respect to teachers' and students' religious beliefs. These aspects have been widely investigated in the USA and Europe. However, little empirical research has been done on this issue in Latin America, despite their…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Christianity, Beliefs, Foreign Countries
Fuertes-Prieto, Miguel Ángel; Andrés-Sánchez, Santiago; Corrochano-Fernández, Diego; Urones-Jambrina, Carmen; Delgado-Martín, Mª Laura; Herrero-Teijón, Pablo; Ruiz, Camilo – Science & Education, 2020
In order to increase scientific competence within the general population, it is important that teachers and educators have a realistic image of science and scientists, leaving aside superstitions and pseudoscientific claims that could be transmitted to their students. A starting point in this strategy is to make a good diagnosis of the future…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Misconceptions, Beliefs, Science Education
Aini, Rahmi Qurota; Rachmatullah, Arif; Harliadi, Muhammad Dika; Ha, Minsu – Science & Education, 2020
Indonesia is a religious country that values local wisdom and customs. Although the characteristics of the Indonesian people may provide novel insight into and distinguished views on the theory of evolution by natural selection, few studies have explored how Indonesians view the theory of biological evolution. Thus, this study aimed to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biology, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers
Tawa, John – Science & Education, 2020
Increasingly, educators in the biological and social sciences teach about the concept of race from a social constructionist perspective. Scholarship on race pedagogy suggests that to fully appreciate the complexity of race, students must be able to both deconstruct multiple false beliefs about the fixed nature of race (i.e., racial essentialism)…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Racial Attitudes, Racial Bias, Beliefs
Donovan, Brian M.; Weindling, Monica; Lee, Dennis M. – Science & Education, 2020
Genetic essentialism of race is the belief that racial groups have different underlying genetic essences which cause them to differ physically, cognitively, or behaviorally. Apparently, no published studies have explored if belief in genetic essentialism of race among adolescents differs after many weeks of formal instruction about different…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Genetics, Science Curriculum, Race
Morin-Chassé, Alexandre – Science & Education, 2020
The paper presents an experimental study that examines the conditions required for news about behavioral genetics to activate genetic essentialism beliefs. Nine hundred sixty-five adults living in the USA were randomly assigned to read either a control news article or one of the three versions of a news story about behavioral genetics. The…
Descriptors: Genetics, Behavior Development, Beliefs, News Reporting
Tornabene, Robyn E.; Sbeglia, Gena C.; Nehm, Ross H. – Science & Education, 2020
Belief in genetic determinism (BGD) has been associated with increased social stereotyping and prejudicial views and consequently is of significant concern to science educators. The Public Understanding and Attitudes towards Genetics and Genomics (PUGGS) instrument was developed to measure relationships among BGD, genetics knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Genetics, Psychometrics, Attitude Measures