An Analysis of the Levels of Thinking Required by Questions in Selected Literature Anthologies for Grades Eight, Nine, and Ten
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Authors
Ambrulevich, Almeda King
Issue Date
1985-11
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
Keywords
Education , Literature , Textbook
Alternative Title
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether selected literature textbooks published for students in grades eight through ten provided questions which ranged from the simplest to the most complex levels of thinking. The levels of thinking to be investigated in this study were those identified in Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The following null hypotheses were tested in this study: Ho1 There is no significant difference between the expected uniform distribution of questions among the six major cognitive categories of The Taxonomy and the observed distribution. Ho2 There is no significant difference between the expected uniform distribution of questions among the six major cognitive categories of The Taxonomy and the observed distributions within each of the grade levels. Ho3 There is no significant difference between the expected uniform distribution of questions among the six major cognitive categories of The Taxonomy and the observed distribution within each of the publishing houses. Ho4 There is no significant difference between the grade levels with respect to the distribution of questions among the six major cognitive categories of The Taxonomy. Ho5 There is no significant difference between the publishing houses with respect to the distribution of questions among the six major cognitive categories of The Taxonomy. H06 There is no significant difference between the grade levels for each of the publishing houses with respect to the distribution of questions among the six major cognitive categories of The Taxonomy. Because of the complexity of the type of content analysis undertaken, this study, unlike many content-analysis studies, attended to and reported on the question of reliability.
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Citation
A.K. Ambrulevich, "An Analysis of the Levels of Thinking Required by Questions in Selected Literature Anthologies for Grades Eight, Nine, and Ten", Ph.D. dissertation, School of Education, Univ. of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 1985.