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| Fostering Prospective Science Teachers' Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking Skills in Learning Cell Biology Through the Use of Directed Intervention Science Reading Activities for Thinking (DISRAT)
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Resty Samosa, Ph.D. and Jo Neil Peria Ph.D.
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Abstract:
The main concern of this research is improving prospective science teachers' reading comprehension and critical thinking skills in learning cell biology through the use of directed intervention science reading activities for thinking (DISRAT). This research was intended to find out whether directed intervention science reading activities for thinking (DISRAT) as intervention material could improve prospective science teachers' reading comprehension and critical thinking skills in learning cell biology. The research methodology was research and development and descriptive - evaluation research design. The subjects of this research were forty (40) third year prospective science teachers. The results of this research showed that the level of acceptability of developed directed intervention science reading activities for thinking (DISRAT) materials assesses by experts in terms of content; format and language; presentation and organization and; accuracy and up-to-datedness was observed as excellent material. Emergently, directed intervention science reading activities for thinking (DISRAT) for cell biology learning could improve prospective science teachers' significantly. It also revealed that directed intervention science reading activities for thinking (DISRAT) had a positive effect on the reading comprehension of the prospective science teachers', as evidenced by the significantly greater mean in the posttest. It is further proved with the hake gain score and t-test result. It is manifested that improve prospective science teachers' have very high observed critical thinking skills during the reading intervention on learning cell biology. Relatively, prospective science teachers' reading comprehension significantly high positive relationship to their critical thinking skills towards the implementation of directed intervention science reading activities for thinking (DISRAT) for cell biology. Future utilization of this directed intervention science reading activities for thinking (DISRAT) as a reading intervention material would raise students" reading comprehension and critical thinking skills in learning specific biology concepts.
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