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
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 ficti...
| Published in: | BMJ Open |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2019-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/10/e028781.full |