Scientifically and/or technologically oriented articles in selected newspapers

Wood, Roger L.; Pella, Milton O.; O'Hearn, George T.

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“…Wood, Pella, and O'Hearn examined 414 articles appearing in newspapers in a six-month period in 1964-65. 10 Among other conclusions, they determined that an average of 2.4 items of scientific knowledge were prerequisite to reading each article. What seems not to have been considered in this study is that there might be some knowledge of reading per se that also was prerequisite.…”

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University Students' Interpretation of Media Reports of Science and its Relationship to Background Knowledge, Interest, and Reading Difficulty

2003

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Three hundred and eight first and second year university students were asked to read five media reports that described recent scientific research and findings. We instructed the students to interpret and make judgments about the certainty, status, and role of statements identified in the reports, and to assess how much knowledge they had about the general topics of the reports, their interest in the general topics, and their difficulty reading each report. Students' performance on the interpretive tasks mirrored in major detail the performance of a group of high school students studied previously. The university students displayed a certainty bias in their responses to questions regarding truth status, confused cause and correlation, and had difficulty distinguishing explanations of phenomena from the phenomena themselves. The university students' self-assessments of their knowledge, interests, and reading difficulty were able to explain virtually none of the variance in their interpretive performance. In general, the university students had an inflated view of their ability to understand the five media reports. Implications for the development of scientific literacy are discussed. SAGE PUBLICATIONS (www.sagepublications.com) PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE

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University Students' Interpretation of Media Reports of Science and its Relationship to Background Knowledge, Interest, and Reading Difficulty

2003

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“…Thus, attitudes are viewed as representing the underlying dispositional and motivational urge for learning (Stem, 1963;Allport, 1967). The second is intimately related to the increasing involvement of contemporary cultures with science and originates in the culminating recognition of societies of the need to produce scientifically literate citizens (Brown, 1964;Hurd, 1967;Wood, Pella. & O'Hearn, 1968).…”

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An investigation into factors affecting attitudes toward science of secondary school students in Jordan

Hasan

1985

Science Education

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Relationship between teachers' change in attitudes toward science and some professional variables

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Billeh

1975

J Res Sci Teach

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Scientifically and/or technologically oriented articles in selected newspapers

Cited by 3 publications

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University Students' Interpretation of Media Reports of Science and its Relationship to Background Knowledge, Interest, and Reading Difficulty

University Students' Interpretation of Media Reports of Science and its Relationship to Background Knowledge, Interest, and Reading Difficulty

An investigation into factors affecting attitudes toward science of secondary school students in Jordan

Relationship between teachers' change in attitudes toward science and some professional variables

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