Reading comprehension skills and understanding of graphs among undergraduate south bohemian university students of biology

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Reading comprehension skills and understanding of graphs among undergraduate south bohemian university students of biology

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Reading comprehension of scientific texts and interpretation of graphs are critical abilities for achievement in science. For this reason, future science teachers’ education at universities should include, among others, the development of skills necessary for reading comprehension of scientific texts as well as proper understanding of graphs. This contribution describes the results of a survey focusing on scientific text comprehension and graph understanding conducted among first-year biology students entering the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia. The results show that these students lacked some skills necessary for text comprehension, especially inference skills for reading, and they have difficulties in understanding scientific vocabulary. Reading comprehension of scientific text was found to correlate with participants’ prior achievement in biology at secondary school. The participants also had problems understanding graphs, in particular recognizing relations and scale range displayed in graphs. A surprisingly weak correlation was found between participants’ understanding of graphs and prior achievement in mathematics.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Reading comprehension skills and understanding of graphs among undergraduate south bohemian university students of biology

Popis výsledku anglicky

Reading comprehension of scientific texts and interpretation of graphs are critical abilities for achievement in science. For this reason, future science teachers’ education at universities should include, among others, the development of skills necessary for reading comprehension of scientific texts as well as proper understanding of graphs. This contribution describes the results of a survey focusing on scientific text comprehension and graph understanding conducted among first-year biology students entering the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia. The results show that these students lacked some skills necessary for text comprehension, especially inference skills for reading, and they have difficulties in understanding scientific vocabulary. Reading comprehension of scientific text was found to correlate with participants’ prior achievement in biology at secondary school. The participants also had problems understanding graphs, in particular recognizing relations and scale range displayed in graphs. A surprisingly weak correlation was found between participants’ understanding of graphs and prior achievement in mathematics.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Lehr- und Lernforschung in der Biologiedidaktik, Biologiedidaktik als Wissenschaft“ 21. Internationale Tagung der Fachsektion Didaktikder Biologie im VBIO, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2017

ISBN

978-3-7065-5910-2

ISSN

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

301-316

Název nakladatele

Studienverlag Ges.m.b.H.

Místo vydání

Insbruck

Místo konání akce

Halle-Wittenberg, SRN

Datum konání akce

11. 9. 2017

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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