Factual knowledge of students about plants is associated with attitudes and interest in botany

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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500693.2021.1917790" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500693.2021.1917790</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2021.1917790" target="_blank" >10.1080/09500693.2021.1917790</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Factual knowledge of students about plants is associated with attitudes and interest in botany
Original language description
Plants are crucial parts of ecosystems but are traditionally considered boring and difficult by students. It is therefore not clear whether factual knowledge about plants contributes to building positive attitudes and interest in botany. We investigated whether factual knowledge about monocotyledonous plants is associated with secondary students? attitudes toward and interest in plants. Furthermore, we examined whether self-reported plant cultivation experiences and gender differences exist in attitudes toward plants. Factual knowledge about monocotyledonous plants significantly correlated with attitudes toward plants and these attitudes were greatly influenced by interest in botany, ecology, evolution, and zoology, but not with other, more distant biological disciplines (e.g. microbiology, or health and nutrition). Females received better scores in knowledge and attitudes toward plants, but interest in plants was similar between males and females. We suggest that (1) factual knowledge in botany is essential in building positive attitudes toward plants and that (2) interconnections between botany with zoology, ecology and evolution may help with elimination of plant blindness and building positive attitudes toward plants.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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]

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

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