Putting names to concepts in biology
J. Daryll Evans · Journal of Biological Education · 1978
Fifty college students were given two multiple-choice tests. One was a list of biological terms for each of which a definition had to be selected; the other determined whether they understood the same concepts when expressed in ordinary language. The results suggested that an ability to recognize names was to some extent independent of that to understand the ideas to which they referred; there could be an appreciation of biological concepts and principles in the absence of the accepted vocabulary.