The Concept of Viruses among First and Second Grade Primary School Students
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13430%2F25%3A43899588" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13430/25:43899588 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.scientiasocialis.lt/jbse/files/pdf/vol24/284-295.Kubiatko_JBSE_Vol.24_No.2.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.scientiasocialis.lt/jbse/files/pdf/vol24/284-295.Kubiatko_JBSE_Vol.24_No.2.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/jbse/25.24.284" target="_blank" >10.33225/jbse/25.24.284</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Concept of Viruses among First and Second Grade Primary School Students
Original language description
Everyone has been interacting with the outside world since birth, creating ideas about various objects or phenomena. The main aim of the research was to identify the concepts of primary school students about viruses. In addition to finding out the level of ideas, additional aims were to determine the effect of gender, the degree of education attended, the residence, the presence of a doctor in the family and the perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD). The research sample consisted of 173 first and second grade primary school students. The research tool consisted of three parts. The first part was sociodemographic variables, the next part was a questionnaire focusing on the perception of ones' own health. In the last section of the research tool, a children's drawing was used to determine the level of respondents'ideas about viruses. The data were analyzed using descriptive, inferential and multidimensional statistics methods. In most cases, drawings of viruses were relatively accurate. The level of education attended and perceived infectiousness were shown to be significant factors influencing the level of students' ideas about viruses. Due to a non-representative sample, the study brings only preliminary results. The anthropomorphic elements were often present in students'drawings in the first grade, it would be appropriate to consider what visual material should be used in the teaching process.
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
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
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 Baltic Science Education
ISSN
1648-3898
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
LT - LITHUANIA
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
284-295
UT code for WoS article
001483006000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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