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In some instances, students who do not believe in the scientific concept scored higher than those students who do believe in the concept, though the difference was not statistically significant.
The contrasting adjectives remain the same for each concept scored.
The contrasting adjectives remain the same for each concept scored, and were chosen from the evaluative adjective scales (Osgood et al, 1971).
No concept scored above 1.7, and only five scored 1.5 or higher (DNA being common to all living organisms; genes as units of information; Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment; genetic and phenotypic variation as the substrate for evolution; and evolution by natural selection).
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However, there was virtually no correlation between interrater reliability (by concept) and concept score (r = 0.16; unpublished data).
This only includes the 3 key concepts scored by EvoGrader that are part of our target key concepts (Variation, Heritability, and Differential Survival).
We found that six out of eight of the scientific and alternative concepts scored by the PS rubric showed agreement above 75% between the homework and interview.
The correlation between EvoGrader-generated and human-scored total key concept scores was 0.927.
We first combined the key concept scores and alternative conception scores relating to the written explanation evolutionary trait gain items and the two written explanation trait loss items.
Key concept scores and alternative conception scores were also used to determine teachers' knowledge coherence, which refers to the consistency of explanatory concept use across items (in our case, the ACORNS items).
Given the reliability information in this study, our analyses used the sum of the key concept scores across the four items but analyzed the four alternative conception scores individually.
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