Educational Malpractice: The Impact of Including Creationism in High School Biology Courses

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-100

  Moore, Randy ^a   Cotner, Sehoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

biology teachers; Creationism; Evolution; High school students; Material Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053302718     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-008-0097-9     Document Type: Article

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