Genetics misconceptions of high school students

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Genetics misconceptions of high school students

Original language description

Genetics belongs to the most difficult biology topics with many misconceptions as it requires active connection of abstract terms on different levels (nucleus - cell - tissue - organism). We preliminarily mapped the most common genetics misconceptions of high school students in Czechia by a questionnaire. A very common misconception was that allele as a specific section of gene. Chromosome was mostly described only by its structure whereas DNA and gene by its function. It was fairly difficult for the students to describe the connection among three terms. We recommend to explicitly link all the different levels of organization, function and structure while teaching genetics.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Project-Based Education and other Activating Strategies in Science Education XVIII. Conference proceedings

ISBN

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ISSN

2695-0626

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

170-177

Publisher name

Faculty of Education, Charles University

Place of publication

Praha

Event location

Praha

Event date

Nov 5, 2020

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000728144300018