2000 Volume 40 Issue 3-4 Pages 122-138
This study dealt with the investigation of students’ evolutionary concepts after learning the “evolution of life” in high school.
These following results emerged: (1) majority of the students possess evolutionary concepts similar to Lamarckism, (2) some of the students possess old evolutionary concepts which are no longer valid, (3) many students have inadequate understanding of present scientific evolutionary concepts, (4) many students have inadequate understanding the evolutionary theory based on “population genetics”, and (5) students have misunderstanding of “natural selection”.
Although students scored high on some questions, accumulated data suggested a lack of systematic understanding of evolutionary theory.
