Velamuthu, Rainee
(2022)
Effectiveness Of Nutrition-Based Socio-Scientific Issues Science Lessons In Fostering 21St Century Scientific Literacy Among Lower Secondary Students.
PhD thesis, Perpustakaan Hamzah Sendut.
Abstract
The emerging concerns about nutrition SSIs like malnutrition, obesity, anaemia, etc give rise to a call to improve scientific literacy among students to be global citizens who can resolve nutrition issues in a fair and just manner while moving towards a safe global community. The study measured the effectiveness of nutrition-based SSI lessons in exploring and enhancing secondary school students’ 21st-century scientific literacy dimensions of (1) content knowledge (2) habits of mind (3) character and values (4) science as human endeavour and (5) metacognition and self-direction and its constructs. Two instruments were used to measure students’ content knowledge, the Nutrition Content Knowledge Test (NCKT) and the Big Ideas of Science Nutrition Test (BIOSNT. A questionnaire survey and interviews were conducted to measure the change in the dependent variables. Questionnaire on Habits of Mind (HOMQ), Questionnaire on Character and Values (CVQ),
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