Do Knowledge Arrangements Affect Student Reading Comprehension of Genetics?

Jen-Yi Wu; Yu-Neng Tung; Bi-Chi Hwang; Chen-Yung Lin; Che-Di Lee; Yung-Ta Chang

doi:10.1525/abt.2014.76.3.6

1 March 2014 Do Knowledge Arrangements Affect Student Reading Comprehension of Genetics?

Jen-Yi Wu, Yu-Neng Tung, Bi-Chi Hwang, Chen-Yung Lin, Che-Di Lee, Yung-Ta Chang

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The American Biology Teacher, 76(3):184-188 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2014.76.3.6

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Various sequences for teaching genetics have been proposed. Three seventhgrade biology textbooks in Taiwan share similar key knowledge assemblages but have different knowledge arrangements. To investigate the influence of knowledge arrangements on student understanding of genetics, we compared students' reading comprehension of the three texts that exhibit different knowledge arrangements. The results revealed that one particular knowledge arrangement (genetic materials, mitotic and meiotic models, genetic model, and molecular model) leads to the greatest reading comprehension of genetics. The differences are found in knowledge of mitotic and meiotic models. The results of this study are valuable for use in organizing instruction.

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Jen-Yi Wu, Yu-Neng Tung, Bi-Chi Hwang, Chen-Yung Lin, Che-Di Lee, and Yung-Ta Chang "Do Knowledge Arrangements Affect Student Reading Comprehension of Genetics?," The American Biology Teacher 76(3), 184-188, (1 March 2014). https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2014.76.3.6

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