Accordingly, this study aimed at examining science and biology teachers' perceptions of teaching evolution; specifically, their perceptions of the necessity of addressing evolution in their classrooms, perceptions of the factors that impede addressing evolution in their classrooms and their personal science teaching efficacy beliefs regarding evolution.
Likewise, the "understanding of evolution and nature of science" variate accounts for 3.2% of the variance in the "acceptance of evolution, perceptions of the necessity of addressing evolution in the classrooms, perceptions of the factors that impede addressing evolution in the classrooms, and self-efficacy beliefs about teaching evolution" variables (Table 7).
Redundancy values indicated that the "acceptance of evolution, perceptions of the necessity of addressing evolution in the classrooms, perceptions of the factors that impede addressing evolution in the classrooms, and self-efficacy beliefs about teaching of evolution" variate accounts for 7.3% of the variance in the "understanding of evolution and nature of science".
Overall, the modified questionnaire included 19 Likert-type items in three domains: teachers' perceptions of the necessity of addressing evolution in their classrooms, teachers' perceptions of the factors that impede addressing evolution in their classrooms, and personal science teaching efficacy beliefs regarding evolution.
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The scores for this sample ranged from 1.14 to 5.00; higher scores reflected higher levels of perceptions of the necessity of addressing evolution in their classrooms.
Table 4 The frequency distributions of teachers' responses regarding their perceptions of the necessity of addressing evolution in their classrooms Item Percentages SA A U D SD 1.
Firstly, we found that sound understanding of evolution and NOS was related to perceptions of the necessity of addressing evolution in the science classrooms.
Accordingly, it is reasonable to expect that teachers' acceptance of evolution is also related to their perceptions of the necessity of addressing evolution in the classrooms.
Participants' perceptions about the necessity of addressing evolution in their classrooms were evaluated by seven items in TPTES.
