Our findings also indicate that understanding of evolution and NOS was associated with teachers' acceptance of scientific validity of evolution.
Particularly powerful, he argues, has been growing acceptance of the validity of PTSD including the idea that traumatic memories can be triggered at any moment.
In contrast, acceptance of the validity of knowledge is based on an examination of the plausibility, persuasiveness, and fruitfulness of the empirical support for the construct.
This suggests that acceptance of the validity of evolutionary theory is associated with a greater, more in-depth understanding in our group.
Present data led to the conclusion that sound understanding of evolution and NOS is related to teachers' acceptance of scientific validity of evolution and their perceptions concerning the necessity of addressing evolution in their classes.
From an educational perspective, it is useful to associate knowledge with understanding, while belief may be associated with acceptance of the validity of a construct (Southerland et al. 2001).
Qualified DDT then become open tools and standards for the scientific community which, in turn, may be assured both of the scientific rigor under which they were developed and of the FDA's understanding and acceptance of their validity.
In addition, the results of this study and others (e.g., Bishop and Anderson 1990; Sinatra et al. 2003) show that student acceptance of the validity of evolution does not impinge on their ability to learn and understand the processes involved in evolution.
It is this reader's opinion that Pauling doesn't need a widespread acceptance of the validity of Vitamin C's uses.
It also relies on an acceptance of the validity of well-being measures for making inter-personal comparison.
The embarrassingly low level of acceptance of the validity of biological evolution by the American public (Berkman and Plutzer, 2011) raises an obvious question: to what degree are students presented with a coherent framework (Donovan and Bransford, 2005) within which to develop the conceptual sophistication required to deal with what are, in fact, quite complex processes and ideas?
