The Cognitive Structures of High School Students Regarding Immunity before the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Salman, Muhammed; Altunoglu, Bahattin Deniz
Titel	The Cognitive Structures of High School Students Regarding Immunity before the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 14 (2022) 3, S.1963-1982 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Salman, Muhammed)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Communicable Diseases; Foreign Countries; Cognitive Structures; Schemata (Cognition); Grade 11; Grade 12; Biology; Science Instruction; Association (Psychology); Health; Prevention; Knowledge Level; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Contagious disease; Contagious diseases; Communicable disease; Infektionskrankheit; Ausland; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Biologie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Assoziation; Gesundheit; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Wissensbasis; Türkei
Abstract	In this study, it was aimed to determine high school students' cognitive structures regarding to the immunity, infection, allergy and autoimmunity. In this study, it was tried to reveal the cognitive structures of high school students on immunity, infection, allergy and autoimmunity just before COVID-19. The study was carried out with 77 students. The data collection tool was Words Association Test. The data collection tool was prepared separately for each stimulus word which were immunity, infection, allergy and autoimmunity. These stimulus words were chosen since these are the subthemes of the Immune system in the Turkish Secondary Biology Curriculum. Data analysis was performed for each stimulus word. The content analysis and coding of the data resulted in the categorization of the data. Considering the categories, models of the students' cognitive structures were drawn. In addition, the correlation coefficient was calculated according to the similarity between the answers given to each stimulus word. As a result, in our study, it is seen that the basic concepts of immunity, infection, allergy and autoimmunity are not predominantly structured in the minds of the students. It is worrying that basic concepts such as antibodies, passive immunity, and T cells are very rare or absent in the study. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	World Council for Curriculum and Instruction. California School of Education, Alliant International University, 10455 Pomerado Road, San Diego, CA 92131. Web site: https://ijci.wcci-international.org/index.php/IJCI/index
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01