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Toward Epistemic Justice in Socio-Scientific Decision-Making: How Youth Make Sense of Lively COVID-19 and Vaccines Data
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Wisam Sedawi; Angela Calabrese Barton – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Background: Studies of socio-scientific decision-making in times of crisis are in their infancy. This study investigates how minoritized youth engage and make sense of newly developed COVID-19 vaccines and their intersections with the evolving multi-pandemic. Guided by theories of lively data, data sense and epistemic injustice, we center the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, COVID-19, Immunization Programs
Vaccine Hesitancy among Health-Care Professionals in the Era of COVID-19
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Pikkel Geva, Hagar Z.; Gershgoren, Harel; Nir, Dana; Khazen, Maram; Rose, Adam J. – Health Education Research, 2023
Health-care professionals (HCPs) are key trusted figures in addressing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) challenges. They are thought to influence others' health decisions by personal example. However, during the COVID-19 crisis, some HCPs hesitated to be vaccinated. We examined factors contributing to that decision. We performed 12…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Immunization Programs, Resistance (Psychology), COVID-19
The Incidence and Magnitude of the Health Costs of In-Person Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Working Paper 28619
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Mulligan, Casey B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
The health costs of in-person schooling during the pandemic, if any, fall primarily on the families of students, largely due to the fact that students significantly outnumber teachers. Data from North Carolina, Wisconsin, Australia, England, and Israel covering almost 80 million person-days in school help assess the magnitude of the fatality risks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk, Costs, Health Services
Emphasizing Visual Tools: Using R to Understand Dynamic Models of Biology and Epidemiology
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Dayal, Vikram – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
Epidemiological models have enhanced relevance because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this note, we emphasize visual tools that can be part of a learning module geared to teaching the SIR epidemiological model, suitable for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students in disciplines where the level of prior mathematical knowledge of…
Descriptors: Biology, Visual Aids, Epidemiology, Science Instruction
The State of Global Education: 18 Months into the Pandemic
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OECD Publishing, 2021
In 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries/economies were locked out of their schools. Students everywhere have been faced with schools that are open one day and closed the next, causing massive disruption to their learning. With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic still raging, the disruption to education has extended into 2021 and many…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, COVID-19, Pandemics
The State of School Education: One Year into the COVID Pandemic
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OECD Publishing, 2021
In 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries/economies were locked out of their schools. Students everywhere have been faced with schools that are open one day and closed the next, causing massive disruption to their learning. With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic still raging, many education systems are still struggling, and the situation is…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Educational Trends