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- Title
THE PROBLEM OF SCIENTIFIC TERMINOLOGY IN COURSES DESIGNED FOR GENERAL EDUCATION.
- Authors
Croxton, W. C.; Grove, Ewart
- Abstract
The article presents information on a study which focuses on problems faced by the college students in understanding the biological terminologies in the courses designed for general education. The study investigated the problems of mastering the terminology involved in reproduction and early development in animals and man. A list of one hundred thirty terms was selected from the 40 pages of textual material of the biology books. Several statistical measures were adopted to get the precise data from the samples. The study revealed that in the mastery of the general terminology, there was no significant differences between the scores of men and women. The study revealed that only 6.1 percent of the students correctly defined the terms after reading the material whereas only 21.5 percent of the students correctly defined the terms after the classwork. Nearly one seventh of the terms remained unmastered by even a single student.
- Subjects
BIOLOGICAL terminology; MASTERY learning; SCIENTIFIC terminology; REPRODUCTION; GENERAL education; BIOLOGICAL research; LIFE sciences; CURRICULUM; COLLEGE students
- Publication
Science Education, 1938, Vol 22, Issue 7, p339
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730220702