RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Hlaváčová, Lucie
T1 Teaching evolution and natural selection at Czech and British schools
JF e-Pedagogium
YR 2016
VO 16
IS 3
SP 127
OP 138
DO 10.5507/epd.2016.037
UL https://e-pedagogium.upol.cz/en/artkey/epd-201603-0012.php
AB The article presents data of a comparative analysis dealing with evolutionary bilogy tought at Czech and British (English and Scottish) schools. The research aims to find out to which extent the biological topics are associated with teaching evolution and natural selection. Total of 350 teachers from the Czech Republic and 122 teachers from England and Scotland took part in the research. The data were collected from online questionnaires. The main statistical procedures used for data analysis were descriptive statistics and chi-square test. The results show that Human Evolution and the Origin of life are the most common topics taught at Czech schools in the context of biological evolution while the British schools focus on Genetics and Adaptation.