Astrology Beliefs among Undergraduate Students

Autor/inn/en	Sugarman, Hannah; Impey, Chris; Buxner, Sanlyn; Antonellis, Jessie
Titel	Astrology Beliefs among Undergraduate Students
Quelle	In: Astronomy Education Review, 10 (2011) 1, S.010101-1 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-1515
DOI	10.3847/AER2010040
Schlagwörter	Majors (Students); Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Surveys; Scientific Literacy; Correlation; Science Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Korrelation; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abstract	A survey of the science knowledge and attitudes toward science of nearly 10000 undergraduates at a large public university over a 20-year period included several questions addressing student beliefs in astrology and other forms of pseudoscience. The results from our data reveal that a large majority of students (78%) considered astrology "very" or "sort of" scientific. Only 52% of science majors said that astrology is "not at all" scientific. We find that students' science literacy, as defined by the National Science Foundation in its surveys of the general public, does not strongly correlate with an understanding that astrology is pseudoscientific, and therefore belief in astrology is likely not a valid indicator of scientific illiteracy. (Contains 5 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10