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The Dimensionality of Science Achievement and its Links to Other Academic Domains

Lukowski, Sarah L
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1416565567

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2014, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Psychology.
Broadly, science achievement is typically broken into domain-specific science content knowledge and domain-general scientific reasoning skills. However, whether this dichotomy is useful and how science achievement is related to skills from other academic domains remains poorly understood. Thus, the present study examined science content knowledge and scientific reasoning alongside measures of mathematics, visuo-spatial, and reading skills to assess the dimensionality of science and examine the relationships among these academically-relevant skills. 100 undergraduates completed a 90 minute test battery. Factor analyses suggested that the science measures were not unidimensional, though a clear multi-factor structure failed to emerge from either measure. Nevertheless, both science measures were moderately correlated with reading, math content knowledge, and visuo-spatial skills. There were no significant differences between content knowledge and reasoning in their relation to other academic domains when math-related items of the reasoning measure were accounted for. Future work should refine measures of science as a multidimensional scale in order to better elucidate the causes and consequences of individual differences in science-related skills.
Stephen Petrill (Advisor)
John Opfer (Committee Member)
Vladimir Sloutsky (Committee Member)
70 p.
Psychology
science reasoning; science content knowledge; academic skills

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  • Lukowski, S. L. (2014). The Dimensionality of Science Achievement and its Links to Other Academic Domains [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1416565567

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lukowski, Sarah. The Dimensionality of Science Achievement and its Links to Other Academic Domains. 2014. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1416565567.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lukowski, Sarah. "The Dimensionality of Science Achievement and its Links to Other Academic Domains." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1416565567

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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