TY  - JOUR
TT  - Examining the Relationship between Middle School Students’ Critical Reading Skills, Science Literacy Skills and Attitudes: A Structural Equation Modeling
AU  - Karademir, Ersin
AU  - Ulucinar, Ufuk
PY  - 2017
DA  - January
DO  - 10.21891/jeseh.275669
JF  - Journal of Education in Science Environment and Health
JO  - JESEH
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-214X
SP  - 29
EP  - 39
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
KW  - Middle school students
KW  - Critical thinking
KW  - Critical reading skill
KW  - Science literacy skill
KW  - Attitudes toward science literacy
N2  - The purpose of this study is to verify the causalrelationship between middle school students' critical reading skills, scienceliteracy skills and attitudes towards science literacy with research dataaccording to the default model. Through the structural equation modeling, pathanalysis has been applied in the study which was designed in correlationalmodel. The sample of the studyconsists of 1170 students enrolled in 18 schools determined based onsocio-economic status. However, the results showed that validity criteria wassatisfied with the 1130 participants. As data collection tool, the scale of criticalreading skills, science literacy skills test, and the attitude scale towardscience literacy were used. Descriptive statistics, Pearson product moment correlationanalysis technique and path analysis were employed for the data analysis. Thefindings of the research show that there are significant and positive relationsbetween critical reading skills, science literacy skills and attitudes towardsscience. In addition, critical reading skills have a statistically positivepredictive effect on science literacy skill. It has also been founded thatscience literacy skills predict the attitudes towards scientific literacy in ameaningful way. Moreover, critical reading skills directly predict thescientific literacy in a meaningful, positive direction. It has been revealed that science literacy skill, whichexists in the model, acts as partial mediating variable. As a result, asput forward in theory, critical thinking, critical reading skill, and scienceliteracy skills and attitudes have been found to be closely related.
CR  - Karademir, E. & Ulucinar, U. (2017). Examining the relationship between middle school students’ critical reading skills, science literacy skills and attitudes: A structural equation modeling.  Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health (JESEH), 3(1), 29-39.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21891/jeseh.275669
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/256869
ER  -