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The understanding of evolution at primary school: can an intervention improve conceptual understanding?
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The study aimed to describe the understanding of evolution of 10-11 year olds at primary schools in England and investigated whether their understanding can be improved when they are exposed to instruction. Evolution is a unifying concept in biology and although existing literature indicated that evolution is poorly understood by many adults, including teachers and children at secondary school, it was recently introduced in the English National Curriculum for primary school. Research is ne...
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+ Nunes, T
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Hillier, J
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- Education
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-4647-3359
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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2023-04-13
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- Copyright holder:
- McGowan-Smyth, J
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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