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Evolution in European and Israeli school curricula – a comparative analysis
Mavrikaki, Evangelia; Realdon, Giulia; Aivelo, Tuomas; Bajrami, Ani; Dilek Bakanay, Çiçek; Beniermann, Anna; Blagojević, Jelena; Butkeviciene, EgleThe contribution of school curricula to public understanding and acceptance of evolution is still mostly unknown, due to the scarcity of studies that compare the learning goals present in different curricula. To overcome this lack of data we analysed 19 school curricula (18 European and one from Israel) to study the differences regarding the inclusion of learning goals targeting evolution understanding. We perf...
Evolution content in school textbooks: data from eight European countries
Panayides, Andreas; Sá-Pinto, Xana; Mavrikaki, Evangelia; Aanen, Duur K.; Aboim, Sara; Cavadas, Bento; Dvorakova, Radka Marta; Eens, MarcelBackground: Evolution is a unifying theme in biology and its understanding is essential to address sustainability problems. However, many people across the world do not understand evolution. Textbooks are among the most widely used educational resources and the way they depict evolution may greatly impact students’ scientific literacy in evolution. In this paper we investigate which evolution concepts are addre...
Evolution in European and Israeli school curricula – a comparative analysis
Mavrikaki, Evangelia; Realdon, Giulia; Aivelo, Tuomas; Bajrami, Ani; Dilek Bakanay, Çiçek; Beniermann, Anna; Blagojević, Jelena; Butkeviciene, EgleThe contribution of school curricula to public understanding and acceptance of evolution is still mostly unknown, due to the scarcity of studies that compare the learning goals present in different curricula. To overcome this lack of data we analysed 19 school curricula (18 European and one from Israel) to study the differences regarding the inclusion of learning goals targeting evolution understanding. We perf...
EuroScitizen Working Group 2 I Identifying needs and opportunities to improve t...
Sá-Pinto, Xana; Mavrikaki, Evangelia; Realdon, Giulia; Vásquez Ben, Lucía; Pessoa, Patrícia; Korfiatis, Kostas; Panayides, Andreas; Aanen, Duur K.EuroScitizen is a COST Action and involves a research network whose aim is to identify strategies to raise levels of scientific literacy about evolution in Europe. EuroScitizen comprises five working groups (WG) and this poster summarizes the current achievements of WG2 on formal education. WG2 aims to identify the needs and opportunities to improve the teaching of evolution since the first school years in dist...
European first-year university students accept evolution but lack substantial k...
Kuschmierz, Paul; Beniermann, Anna; Bergmann, Alexander; Pinxten, Rianne; Aivelo, Tuomas; Berniak‑Woźny, Justyna; Bohlin, GustavBackground: Investigations of evolution knowledge and acceptance and their relation are central to evolution edu‑ cation research. Ambiguous results in this feld of study demonstrate a variety of measuring issues, for instance difer‑ ently theorized constructs, or a lack of standardized methods, especially for cross-country comparisons. In particular, meaningful comparisons across European countries, with their...
Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date an...
Vaugoyeau, Marie; Adriaensen, Frank; Artemyev, Alexandr; Bańbura, Jerzy; Barba, Emilio; Biard, Clotilde; Blondel, Jacques; Bouslama, ZihadThe increase in size of human populations in urban and agricultural areas has resulted in considerable habitat conversion globally. Such anthropogenic areas have specific environmental characteristics, which influence the physiology, life history, and population dynamics of plants and animals. For example, the date of bud burst is advanced in urban compared to nearby natural areas. In some birds, breeding succe...
Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds
Møller, Anders P.; Adriaensen, Frank; Artemyev, Alexandr; Bańbura, Jerzy; Barba, Emilio; Biard, Clotilde; Blondel, Jacques; Bouslama, ZihadNests are structures built to support and protect eggs and/or offspring from predators, parasites, and adverse weather conditions. Nests are mainly constructed prior to egg laying, meaning that parent birds must make decisions about nest site choice and nest building behavior before the start of egg-laying. Parent birds should be selected to choose nest sites and to build optimally sized nests, yet our current ...