100-word range of information test in botany¶
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Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 1 study (1 associational),q2· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study
Description¶
A 100-term botanical vocabulary and information test developed by Grier for assessing first-year high-school pupils' plant-life knowledge carried from nature study and school gardens.
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Claims¶
- Second-term botany pupils show lower definition error rates (3.84%) than first-term pupils (4.7%) [+W]
- Second-term high school pupils who have just completed botany define and explain more botanical terms and report fewer new terms than first-term pupils [+W]
- Girls show slight superiority in range of botanical information while boys show lower error rates (2% vs 7%) [+W]
- Botanical terms were defined more often and were new less often than terms in the preceding physiology and zoology tests [+W]
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Key Sources¶
- Grier, N. M. (1919). The range of information in biology: III. Botany. Journal of Educational Psychology, 10(10), 509–516. doi:10.1037/h0073567
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A 100-term botanical vocabulary and information test developed by Grier for assessing first-year high-school pupils' plant-life knowledge carried from nature study and school gardens. |
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