Semantic network analysis of the biotechnology domain in Iranian high school biology textbooks

Mohadese Eskandari; Youngshin Kim

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Mohadese Eskandari ¹ , Youngshin Kim ¹ ^*

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¹ Department of Biology Education, College of Education, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, REPUBLIC OF KOREA^* Corresponding Author

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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 12^th 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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semantic network analysis
Iranian biology textbook
biotechnology domain
biotechnology concept’s articulation

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 18, Issue 8, August 2022, Article No: em2144

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Eskandari, M., & Kim, Y. (2022). Semantic network analysis of the biotechnology domain in Iranian high school biology textbooks. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 18(8), em2144. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12266

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Eskandari M, Kim Y. Semantic network analysis of the biotechnology domain in Iranian high school biology textbooks. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2022;18(8):em2144. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12266

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Eskandari M, Kim Y. Semantic network analysis of the biotechnology domain in Iranian high school biology textbooks. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2022;18(8), em2144. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12266

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Eskandari, Mohadese, and Youngshin Kim. "Semantic network analysis of the biotechnology domain in Iranian high school biology textbooks". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2022 18 no. 8 (2022): em2144. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12266

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Eskandari, M., and Kim, Y. (2022). Semantic network analysis of the biotechnology domain in Iranian high school biology textbooks. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 18(8), em2144. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12266

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Eskandari, Mohadese et al. "Semantic network analysis of the biotechnology domain in Iranian high school biology textbooks". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 18, no. 8, 2022, em2144. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12266