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aim study determine epidemiology instruction high school students improve science literacy skills compared science technology engineering math courses test scientific literacy skills tosls validated measure scientific inquiry interpretation used assess change students n 116 63 female 36 asian 30 hispanic 54 12th grade 48 mid poverty 24 high poverty science literacy skills based prepost performance multilevel models adjusted individuallevel student gender raceethnicity grade level age semester poverty status showed similar tosls performance physics 058 95 confidence interval ci 044 161 biology 009 95 ci 082 100 statistics 076 95 ci 184 032 lower chemistry 109 95 ci 226 008 geology 104 95 ci 206 002 relative reference group epidemiology models testing interaction course subject sociodemographic factors show gender differences tosls performance epidemiology contrast physics lower females biology higher females study findings suggest epidemiology may appropriate method supporting high school students development science literacy skills although larger nuanced studies needed