Secondary school students' misconceptions in genetics: origins and solutions
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F23%3A10430108" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/23:10430108 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=.JS9ZFtSDB" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=.JS9ZFtSDB</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2021.1933136" target="_blank" >10.1080/00219266.2021.1933136</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Secondary school students' misconceptions in genetics: origins and solutions
Original language description
Even though genetics has been implemented in biology curricula at secondary schools for decades, reports repeatedly indicate that students still hold various misconceptions about this topic. To successfully target these misconceptions, we need to know their nature and origin. We aimed to investigate these properties in the Czech educational system among students of lower-secondary education (ISCED 2) and upper secondary education (ISCED 3). Students underwent a test focused on the basic concepts of genetics based on the content of the national curriculum and current textbooks. The results showed that students have general ideas about the nature of genetic information but struggle to synthetise this knowledge into a deeper understanding of functions in the living body. In many cases, these findings resulted in an increase of various misconceptions. Compared with data about the Czech educational environment and its properties, these problems are caused by a disconnection between the rules of inheritance and functions and impacts of DNA (trait development) on multiple levels of biological organisation both in the national curriculum and textbooks. Therefore, in order to prevent misconceptions, we should focus not only on the way lesson are conducted but also on the changes of national educational policies in the Czech Republic.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Biological Education
ISSN
0021-9266
e-ISSN
2157-6009
Volume of the periodical
57
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
633-646
UT code for WoS article
000659337300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85107579245