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Are storks homosexuals? Persistence of misconceptions among university students

KUBIATKO, Milan and Kristýna BALÁTOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Are storks homosexuals? Persistence of misconceptions among university students

Authors

KUBIATKO, Milan (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Kristýna BALÁTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2014, 1648-3898

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50300 5.3 Education

Country of publisher

Lithuania

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.448

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/14:00076943

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

UT WoS

000341878900002

Keywords in English

animals; human body; misconceptions; persistence; university students

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 23/1/2015 08:20, PhDr. Mgr. Kristýna Balátová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The misconceptions about different scientific phenomena are persisting from childhood till adulthood and no method managed to transform it into the correct form. The study is focused on finding out the misconceptions about common facts of zoology and also human body. The respondents were 112 university students. Among these respondents were 22 science major students and the rest of the respondents were non-science majors. The number of females was 82. All respondents are potentially future teachers at elementary schools, so there is a great chance/possibility they will teach pupils and present them the kinds of information which are investigated in this study. Research tool contained 7 items, most of them were from the field of zoology and one from the field of human anatomy. Obtained data were analysed by the proportional ratio of correct and incorrect answers and the chi-square test was used for the determination of differences between groups of variables gender and field of study. There was not found a significant difference between males and females and science major students often answered some items more. There were found many misconceptions about common facts of zoology and human body.