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Measuring non-professionals’ comprehension of journalistic articles about human nutrition: Development of a four-tier test

by Christian Ameseder , Iztok Devetak , Darija Skubic

ABSTRACT

Understanding the scientific concepts and principles underlying a topic is a major factor for facilitating informed decision making. However, many non-professionals need assistance in considering the highly complex interdependencies within these concepts and principles. Journalistic messages are, among others, a source of information on new scientific findings for adult non-professionals. Consequently, interventions aimed at increasing adult non-professionals' concep¬tual comprehension may involve journalistic messages. To be able to evaluate such interventions, a test is needed (1) that can easily be administered to many participants and (2) that allows a nuanced interpreta¬tion of the results. The individual steps necessary for the creation of such a diagnostic test are outlined using the example of human nutrition. Furthermore, the specifics when measuring comprehension of individual stimuli are outlined.

Keywords: Science journalism, Comprehension, Diagnostic test, Human nutrition

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ISSN: xxxx-xxxx/ © 2021 The Authors.
Published by MAP - Multidisciplinary Academic Publishing.

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to the author(s).

DOI: https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/j.xxx.xxxx.xxxx

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