Phylogenetic Trees and Other Evolutionary Diagrams in BiologyTextbooks and Their Importance in Secondary Science Education

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=P6xjcJUhym" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=P6xjcJUhym</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/18047106.1923" target="_blank" >10.14712/18047106.1923</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Phylogenetic Trees and Other Evolutionary Diagrams in BiologyTextbooks and Their Importance in Secondary Science Education

Original language description

Diagramsdescribingrelationshipbetweenorganisms,andtheiroverallevolution,com-monly in the form of phylogenetic trees or other evolutionary diagrams, havebecomea part of even lower secondary biology textbooks. These diagrams can help promotebasic science literacy, yettheir designmayalso strengthenmisconceptions aboutevo-lution. Therefore, based on the content analysis of 112 Czech biology textbooks forsecondary schools (ISCED levels 2 and 3), characteristics of introduced phylogenetictrees and other evolutionary diagrams were recorded and evaluated according to thecladistics to see if their construction supports the current scientific understanding ofevolution.Thecontentanalysisindicatesthatthedesign ofnearlyhalfofalldiagramsin currentlower (ISCED2) anduppersecondary (ISCED3) textbooks promotes lad-der thinking. More than 80% of all diagrams were not accompanied by instructionson how to read them, meaning that students did not have sufficient scaffolding tounderstand them. Mainly ISCED 3 textbooks did not introduce additional problemtasksthatwouldsupporttheuseofthediagrams inthelessons. Therefore, authorsoftextbooks should focus more on theconstruction qualityof these diagrams while alsosupporting their correct application during the educational process. This is likely toprevent a further increase in student misconceptions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Scientia in educatione

ISSN

1804-7106

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

16-36

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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