This paper intends to provide a snapshot of the attitudes of prospective science teachers in NI toward evolution and creationism and survey responses to challenges presented concerning evolution.
This assessment tool has been used widely for many types of IPE programmes; for example, in attitudes of health science faculty members towards IPE with minor modification [ 6].
The American figure comes from research by the National Science Foundation, a US government agency which has been asking this question as part of its survey of public attitudes to science since 1988.
In an official British survey of public attitudes to science in 2008, just over 80% of those asked said they were "amazed by the achievements of science".
Studies of pupils' attitudes to science provide ample evidence that most are turned off by the quality of their experiences of compulsory science education before the age of 16.
Ignorance and disapproval are often tied to colonial, imperial, and other discriminatory attitudes and institutions of science toward "non-Western" knowledge systems (Harding 1998, 2011; Salmon 1996).
Drawing on the theory of planned behaviour, this study tests the effect of entrepreneurship programmes on the entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of science and engineering students.
In addition, both concern about food integrity generally and responses to GM content specifically were weakly predicted by attitudes to benefits of science and an intuitive (i.e., emotionally-based) reasoning style.
This paper attempts to map the research literature relevant to students' voices, their science-related interests, attitudes and images of science, expected careers, and their out-of-school experiences in order to highlight critical research outcomes and implications for resolving adjacent issues.
