“But if It's in the Newspaper, Doesn't That Mean It's True?” Developing Critical Reading & Analysis Skills by Evaluating Newspaper Science with CREATE
Abstract
The media will likely be a major source of science information after college for nonscience majors. It is thus essential that all students learn to critically read newspaper/Internet science. I have adapted the CREATE approach, an active-learning method originally designed for close reading of journal articles (Hoskins et al., 2007), for use with a newspaper article written for the general public. The analysis challenges students to read closely, learn to represent data and design experiments, and think creatively about scientific issues and their social implications. The approaches outlined here can be adapted to any scientific reading and analysis.
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The body of literature on CREATE includes research that examines the effectiveness of this approach in 2-year colleges, explores how this approach can be modified to guide students to read and think critically about secondary sources, investigates the impact of CREATE on students' attitudes toward science in both introductory and upper-division courses across diverse institutions, assesses the ef
“For example, this body of literature on CREATE includes research that examines the effectiveness of this approach in 2-year colleges (Kenyon et al., 2016), explores how this approach can be modified to guide students to read and think critically about secondary sources (Hoskins, 2010), investigates the impact of CREATE on students’ attitudes toward science in both introductory and upper-division”
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- Authors
- Hoskins, S. G.
- Affiliations
- City College of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hoskins, Sally G.
- Venue
- The American Biology Teacher
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2010-09-01
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 415-420
- ISSN
- 0002-7685 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-4211
- OpenAlex
- W2121061083
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 7.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The American Biology Teacher (publishedVersion)
- BioOne Complete (BioOne) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Science Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovative Teaching Methods
- Keywords
- critical reading, science journalism, active learning, close reading, data representation, experimental design, scientific literacy, non-science majors, media literacy, science education
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