Using an innovative tool in science education: examining pre-service elementary teachers’ evaluation levels on the topic of wetlands

Today’s world requires citizens to make informed decisions by critically evaluating evidence and alternative explanations. The purpose of this study was to explore pre-service elementary teachers’ capability of building a model–evidence link, their evaluation levels on the topic of wetlands, and their evaluations of the trustworthiness of the sources of evidence. In order to achieve this goal, we used the Turkish-adapted version of...