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They scored an average of 86.8% agreement with statements measuring acceptance of biological evolution (Additional file 1: Table S1).
This is supported by Cunningham and Wescott, (2009), who found that similar statements in their study were also effective at measuring acceptance.
All subjects completed pre- and post-test instruments which measured their knowledge gain on 30 true-false and multiple-choice questions, along with 7 Likert-type questions measuring acceptance of the articles' format.
The MATE has also been used in previous studies measuring acceptance of biological evolution and has been shown to be a valid and reliable measure (Rutledge and Sadler, 2007; Moore and Cotner, 2009a; Moore and Cotner, 2009b).
Using this sample, Nadelson and Sinatra reported that the MATE was capable of measuring acceptance change in response to treatment (a form of predictive validity evidence) and had acceptable reliabilities (Cronbach's alpha >0.6).
The Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution (MATE) was employed to assess students attitudes toward evolution, as it has been validated for measuring acceptance of evolution among various populations (Rutledge and Sadler [2007]; Rutledge and Warden [1999]), and it has also been used to measure longitudinal change in students' attitudes toward evolution (Wiles and Alters [2011]).
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And, although many have measured acceptance of evolution via various instruments, there has been little information regarding what students consider to be important factors affecting changes in their positions of acceptance or rejection of evolution.
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