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Filtering by: Creator Reid, W. Curtis Creator Adams, Ruth Helen Degree Field Science Education Degree Name Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

Determination and comparison of biological principles in the public press and in BSCS biology texts

Creator:

Adams, Ruth Helen

Abstract:

The purposes of this study were threefold: (1) to formulate a current list of biological principles to use as a checklist in this study; (2) to utilize the formulated checklist in identifying those principles required for reading comprehension of news articles concerning the various areas of biology or biology-related social...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

14 fictitious. Curtis (18) in 19 24 examined 5, 566 newspaper articles and found that only 13.7