No “Slippery Slope”? An Empirical Case Study on the Effect of Secular Science Textbooks on Student Religiosity in a Christian Private School

The educational emphases of science teachers in US Evangelical Protestant high schools

“…Proponents of textbooks produced by Christian publishing companies argue that they are more effective for teaching and instilling faithfulness to a Christian worldview (Cox et al., 2007). However, research on textbook usage finds little relationship between the type of textbook, the frequency of its usage, and measures of student religiosity or Christian-worldview formation (Reichard, 2016). This work suggests that other aspects of teaching and learning besides textbook selection may be more consequential for these student outcomes.…”