Differences in Graph-Related Practices between High School Biology Textbooks and Scientific Ecology Journals.

Investigates the practices required for reading graphs in high school textbooks and scientific journals. Discusses the role of high school textbooks in the appropriation of authentic scientific graph-related practices. Finds that scientific journals provide more resources to facilitate graph reading and feature more elaborate descriptions and interpretations of graphs than high school textbooks. Contains 89 references. (Author/WRM)