The Development of Biological Literacy Examination for High School Students in the Three Southernmost Provinces
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The objectives of this research were to develop biological literacy tests, validate the parallelism of the test and construction of biological literacy norms for high school students. The population was 1,353 large school students in the three southernmost provinces in Mathayomsuksa 6. The sample consisted of 290 people using Krejcie & Morgan (1970) to estimate the appropriate sample size and the quota sampling technique was used for sample selection. The data were statistically analyzed to derive basic statistics, validate the parallelism of the test, one – way ANOVA and construction norms of biological literacy. The results showed both biological literacy tests that were constructed had quality according to the specified criteria and the tests were parallel to each other. The overall average score of the 1st and 2nd tests was 24.06 and 24.24 points out of 40 points, respectively. When considered each aspect separately, it was found that the 1st test of knowledge, context and attitude had an average of 15.19, 6.01 and 2.81 points and the 2nd test of knowledge, context and attitude had an average of 15.08, 6.03 and 3.13 points out of 24, 11 and 5 points, respectively. The average
biological literacy scores classified by schools overall had no statistically significant difference overall. For the norms of biological literacy scores of the sample, there were T scores ranging from T27 to T72 (P0.52 – P99.48). The developed norms were based on norm-referenced evaluation of high school students in large schools in the three southernmost provinces.
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