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Meltem Irmak; Nilay Ozturk; Büsra Tuncay Yüksel; Birgül Çakir Yildirim; Güliz Karaarslan Semiz – Science & Education, 2025
In this study, we explored Turkish preservice teachers' (PTs) informal reasoning regarding COVID-19 vaccination and new media literacy (NML), and investigated potential relationships between their informal reasoning and NML levels. Participants of the study were 410 PTs enrolled in teacher education programs of 19 different universities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, COVID-19
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Ihsan Ghazal; Hayat Hokayem – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Research suggests that students hold misconceptions about the immune system, but little is known about how they reason about the mechanisms by which the immune system operates. This study investigated how students reasoned about the immune system in Beirut, Lebanon. The study used a qualitative approach and investigated 16 Grade 12 participants…
Descriptors: High School Students, Misconceptions, Grade 12, Physiology
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Chanel De Smet; Jasmine Nation; Alejandra Yep; Alan Henriquez – American Biology Teacher, 2024
This paper presents a novel approach to teaching how vaccines work in the body, and introduces a community outreach project and activity we piloted with youth. Our Nuestra Ciencia program addresses scientific misconceptions among bilingual elementary school children in engaging and scientifically accurate ways. Utilizing analogies and…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Logical Thinking, Misconceptions, Elementary School Students