Lower secondary school students' scientific literacy and their proficiency in identifying and appraising health claims in news media: a secondary analysis using large-scale survey data.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Scientific literacy is assumed necessary for appraising the reliability of health claims. Using a national science achievement test, we explored whether students located at the lower quartile on the latent trait (scientific literacy) scale were likely to identify a health claim in a fictitious brief news report, and whether students located at or above the upper quartile were likely to additionally request information relevant for appraising that claim. DESIGN:Secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:2229 Norwegian 10th grade students (50% females) from 97 randomly sampled lower secondary schools who performed the test during April-May 2013. OUTCOME MEASURES:Using Rasch modelling, we linked item difficulty and student proficiency in science to

SUBMITTER: Nordheim LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6803159 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature