Identifying Troublesome Jargon in Biology: Discrepancies between Student Performance and Perceived Understanding.

Of the six jargon categories, mean % Thought Understood was lower for Molecular terms than all other terms ( n of Molecular terms = 23, n of other terms = 49, Kruskal-Wallis test χ 2 = 10.9, p < 0.008) and higher, though marginally statistically significant, for Information terms than for all other terms ( n of Information terms = 19, n other terms = 53, Kruskal-Wallis test χ 2 = 6.47, p = 0.01; Figure 2 and Supplemental Table S2).

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