RESOUR> Student knowledge of evolution deficient

From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:55:41 -0600
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Public release date: 26-Feb-2003
Contact: Brian Alters brian.alters@xxxxxxxxx 514-398-5151
McGill University

Researchers from McGill and Indiana Universities tackle issue in Evolution
Public understanding of evolution is woefully lacking. Despite a considerable
boost in evolutionary teachings over the past decade, says Brian Alters,
director of McGill's Evolution Education Research Centre, people's lack of
evolutionary understanding is still affecting science literacy, research and
general academia.

And it's not just the general public who don't understand evolution, warns
Alters. "A considerable proportion of college graduates aren't familiar with
evolutionary principals either."

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These are just some of the issues that Alters has tackled in the last edition
of Evolution, in collaboration with Craig E. Nelson, a professor in the
Department of Biology and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
at Indiana University. In their article, the scientists stress that most
students retain little of what they learn in college, much less evolutionary
theory. Worse, students with extensive secondary-level and college science
courses have similar deficits.

The two researchers also explore what distinguishes effective pedagogy from
ineffective pedagogy in higher education and, particularly, in evolution
education. To obtain a full copy of the Alters-Nelson text, please contact
sylvain-jacques.desjardins@xxxxxxxxx of McGill's University Relations Office.
To read the abstract of their article, please consult:
http://evol.allenpress.com/evolonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0014-3820&volume=56&issue=10&page=1891

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Source: Sylvain-Jacques Desjardins,
Communications officer, University Relations Office,
514-398-6752, sylvain-jacques.desjardins@xxxxxxxxx

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