TY - T1 - Factors explaining students’ attitudes towards learning genetics and belief in genetic determinism SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/333416 T3 - A1 - Aivelo, Tuomas; Uitto, Anna A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Understanding how teaching affects students' attitudes and beliefs is notoriously difficult, specifically in a quickly evolving and societally relevant field such as genetics. The aim of this survey study is to capitalize our previous research and examine how teaching relates to Finnish secondary school students’ liking of, self-concept in and experienced utility of genetics, attitude towards gene technology and belief in genetic determinism. In this unique setting, we used as explanatory variab... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology; genetiikan opetus; 516 Educational sciences; tiedekasvatus; biologian didaktiikka; Item response theory; student attitudes; biology education; upper secondary school; HIGH-SCHOOL-STUDENTS; SECONDARY-SCHOOL; PUBLIC-ATTITUDES; BIOLOGY TEXTBOOKS; SCIENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; ORIENTATION; EXPLORATION N1 - PP - ER -