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Nikola Synak; Nikola Šabíková; Radomír Masaryk – Science & Education, 2024
Studies consistently show the social impact of spreading epistemologically unfounded beliefs (or 'conspiracy beliefs'), including negative effects on public health. The present study identified correlations among epistemologically unfounded beliefs, authoritarianism, and scientific literacy in a representative sample of 303 Slovak secondary school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Misconceptions
Morales López, Ana Isabel; Tuzón Marco, Paula – Science & Education, 2022
The teaching of the phenomenon of radioactivity is considered a key ingredient in the path towards developing critical thinking skills in many secondary science education curricula. Despite being one of the basic concepts in general physics courses, the scientific teaching literature of the last 40 years reports a great deal of misconceptions and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes, Radiation
van Dijk, Esther M.; Reydon, Thomas A. C. – Science & Education, 2010
In this paper we present a schematic overview of the central concepts in evolutionary theory, setting them off against the background of widespread misconceptions about them. Our aim is to provide high school teachers with (1) an overview of those particular concepts that they can expect students to have difficulties with, (2) a comparison of…
Descriptors: Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
Kampourakis, Kostas; Zogza, Vasso – Science & Education, 2007
In this paper, the main points of Lamarck's and Darwin's theoretical conceptual schemes about evolution are compared to those derived from 15 years old students' explanations of evolutionary episodes. We suggest that secondary students' preconceptions should not be characterized as "Lamarckian", because they are essentially different from the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Misconceptions, Evolution, Science Education