Research  to  Support  Understanding  of  Evolution  and  Inheritance  in  the  National  Curriculum  at   KS1  and  KS2:  Evaluation  of  impact   Linda  McGuigan  and  Terry  Russell.  Centre  for  Lifelong  Learning,  University  of  Liverpool

Table  2:  Teachers’  ratings  of  the  value  of  the  project  to  current  teaching  of  the  five  domains   Statement     Mean  rating   The  project  has  helped  my  teaching  of  fossils     1.7   The  project  has  helped  my  teaching  of    variation   1.7   The  project  has  helped  my  teaching  of  evolution   1.7   The  project  has  helped  my  teaching  of    inheritance  a. [...]       15   Appendix  II  :                ‘Evaluation  of  impact’  questionnaire  protocol   Teacher  name               School    Age  group  of  children  in  current  class  (Tick  ✔the  box  (es)  that  apply)   Reception     Year  1   Year  2   Year  3     Year  4   Year  5   Year  6                   1. [...]            The  project  offered  opportunities  to  network  with  other  teachers  to  develop           my  practice. [...]   The  project  gave  me  new  ideas  for  teaching  science           Asking  for  the  reasons  behind  ideas  and  using  ‘argumentation’  helped  to           develop  children’s  ‘working  scientifically’   I  have  shared  some  of    the  activities  with  other  teachers  in  the  my  school               16     4. [...]    Please  give  your  impression  of  how  the  project  has  influenced  your  teaching  of  Evolution  and  Inheritance     (Tick  ✔one  box  in  each  row  and  add  a  comment  below  each  statement.)   strongly   strongly     agree   disagree   agree   disagree     The  project  has  helped  my  teaching  of  fossils             Comment:          The  project  has  helped  my  teaching  of.