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These faults appear to have minimal impact on our results, but they do suggest that a more extensive instrument of evolutionary acceptance, such as the EALS (Hawley [2011]) or the EALS short from (Short and Hawley [2012]) can useful in exploring the details of evolutionary acceptance.
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We used the MATE-instrument to measure the acceptance of evolutionary theory.
Many widely used instruments, nevertheless, ignore the possibility that non-adaptive factors (such as genetic drift) could contribute to patterns of evolutionary change that the instrument scenarios present (e.g., Bird beak evolution in Anderson et al.'s CINS instrument).
The instrument was developed to determine high-school teacher acceptance of evolutionary theory.
The Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution instrument (Rutledge and Warden 1999) was used to determine participants' acceptance of evolutionary theory.
The combined results from these two instruments provided us a more complete picture of students' knowledge of evolutionary concepts and processes.
All of these instruments contain similar item formats: open-ended questions that ask students to explain how patterns of evolutionary change occurred (from the standpoint of a biologist).
Thus, teachers across the educational hierarchy must develop and deploy instruments that include the measurement of reasoning using non-adaptive factors in formative and summative assessments of evolutionary thinking.
In assessing student knowledge of evolutionary concepts, it is to instructors' advantage if they are made aware of the variety of instruments that have been designed to measure such knowledge.
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Journal of Evolutionary Economics; 14 (5): 593–604.
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