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Similarly, Paz-y-Miño and Espinosa (2009) found evolutionary attitudes to be lower in all non-biology majors, although they did not distinguish between the different divisions of academia.
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Access to the Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (developed by Patricia Hawley) 7.
The long form Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS) consists of 17 pages of Web-presented items where respondents rate the degree to which they agree or disagree with 104 statements on a seven-point Likert scale ranging from one (strongly disagree) to seven (strongly agree) with the midpoint 4 (neither agree nor disagree).
Figure 3 The relationship between students' post-course evolutionary attitudes and knowledge of evolutionary science.
Figure 2 The relationship between students' post-course evolutionary attitudes and religiosity.
Figure 1 The relationship between changes in students' NOS conceptions and evolutionary attitudes.
A similar before and after design using the MATE would allow for an assessment of changes in general evolutionary attitudes in a larger sample of museum visitors.
To evaluate whether our course goals had been achieved, we assessed learner outcomes by way of the Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (Hawley and Parkinson 2008) at the beginning and end of the fall 2009 "Evolution for Everyone" course.
The Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS) is a multidimensional scale consisting of 16 lower- and 6 higher-order constructs developed to measure the wide array of factors that influence both an individual's endorsement of and objection to evolutionary theory.
Latent regressions also allow for the predictive role of numerous latent variables (e.g., demographics and openness to experience) to be examined across multiple dependent variables (in this case, the six higher order factors of the Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS)).
At the beginning of the semester, one's high school experience with evolution was positively associated with Factual Understanding (β = .286, p < .001; see Table 5) and reports of evolution's Relevance (β = .302, p < .001; see Table 5), making it the most important predictor of evolutionary attitudes.
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