Identifies some difficulties that students in grades 7-10 have with logical connectives in reading science passages. Describes the Logical Connectives in Science project as a comprehensive criterion-referenced testing survey study. Results include information on difficulty of various logical connectives and kinds of errors students make in…

Twelfth-grade science students (n=91) were asked to read five popular reports of science to ascertain their ability to understand the scientific information presented. Results indicated that only half of the students accurately understood the scientific status and role of statements when the understanding required contextualized interpretation on…

Results of this study indicate that process skills instruction can significantly improve reading comprehension of preservice and in-service teachers. However, the data indicated no significant differences between preservice and in-service teachers' reading comprehension scores after completing process skills instruction. (MA)

Studies the effect of intellectual development, degree of field independence, mental capacity, amount of prior genetics knowledge and amount of fluid intelligence on reading comprehension and/or genetics achievement of students enrolled in a nonmajor biology course. Concludes that developmental level was the most consistent predictor of…