Table 4.
Analysis of students' claims on the Frog problem
Scorea | No. of students | % | Claim components |
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Atrazine only | Trematodes only | Atrazine plus trematodes | |||
3 | 51 | 29 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
2 | 56 | 20 | ✓ | ✓ | |
9 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
3 | ✓ | ✓ | |||
1 | 53 | 23 | ✓ | ||
5 | ✓ | ||||
3 | ✓ | ||||
0 | 15 | 9 |
a A score of 3 indicates that a claim was complete and correct. Claims that received a score of 2 or 1 were missing either one or two fundamental components. Check marks indicate what components were present in students' claims.