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RESEARCH PAPER
Semantic network analysis of the biotechnology domain in Iranian high school biology textbooks
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Department of Biology Education, College of Education, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Publication date: 2022-07-26
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2022;18(8):em2144
KEYWORDS
semantic network analysisIranian biology textbookbiotechnology domainbiotechnology concept’s articulation
ABSTRACT
Textbooks can have a fundamental and positive effect on both learning and teaching. As such, in
order to understand how students structure concepts in their minds, it is necessary to analyze the
structure in which those concepts presented in textbooks are described. This study examined a
network of concepts used in the domain of biotechnology in the Iranian 12th grade biology
textbook and investigated the alignment of science concepts used in its sub-domains. The
findings of this study suggest that too many concepts, as well as unconnected ones, were used in
biotechnology domain, which led to a complicated conceptual network. Therefore, this paper
recommends that the number of biology concepts described in the later text books in the
biotechnology domain at Iranian high schools should be reduced in order to facilitate a better
formation of connections between concepts and their descriptions.
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