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A 12-week newspapers-in-science-teaching program significantly improved sixth graders' learning attitudes toward newspapers in education

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q2 i? After 12 weeks of newspaper-based science teaching, sixth graders' Learning Attitude toward Newspapers in Education scores rose significantly from pre-test to post-test (t = 6.110, p < .001). → Lai 2016

Evidence

Lai 2016

Lai, C., & Wang, Y. (2016). Newspapers in science education: A study involving sixth grade students. Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health (JESEH), 2(2), 98-103. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1109392

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Single-group quasi-experiment with 33 sixth graders; paired t-test on the 29-item Learning Attitude toward Newspapers in Education Scale (Cronbach's α = .90). Pre-test mean 121.121 (SD 14.133), post-test mean 131.512 (SD 11.515); students "did better on their post -test than on the pre-test".

"The results in Table 1 show that the outcomes of the Attitudes toward Newspapers in Education Instrument indicate that students did better on their post -test than on the pre-test (t = 6.110, p < .001)."

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