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Academic Factors That Predict Community College Students’ Acceptance Of Evolution, Meredith Anne Dorner
Academic Factors That Predict Community College Students’ Acceptance Of Evolution, Meredith Anne Dorner
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There is great disagreement in the United States about with how evolution education should be dealt, as the acceptance of evolution is controversial among the general public of the United States. Furthermore, although a plethora of research has been conducted to understand which factors influence the understanding and acceptance of evolution among high school and university students -- and the general public -- there are few studies focusing on community college students. In an effort to help fill this gap in the literature, this dissertation investigates the relationship between the acceptance of evolution and academic factors among community college students. …