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Tenacious educational neuromyths: Prevalence among teachers and an intervention
Hector Ruiz-Martin1, Marta Portero-Tresserra2, Agustín Martínez-Molina3
1International Science Teaching Foundation (ISTF), 12a Marlborough Place, Brighton, BN1 1WN, England.
Background:
Several studies have revealed a common high prevalence of educational neuromyths among teachers from different countries. However, only one intervention aimed at reducing these beliefs among in-service teachers has been reported to date, and it was conducted in a non-naturalistic setting.
Procedure:
In the present study, we administered a survey to measure the prevalence of common neuromyths in a large sample (n = 807) of primary and secondary teachers from 203 schools across Catalonia (Spain), and then we evaluated the impact that a 15-hour online course on neuroscience had on a sample of them as compared to a control group.
Main Findings:
Results showed an initial distribution of neuromyth beliefs similar to those of previous studies and a large effect of the intervention on reducing their prevalence shortly after the training and in the long term.
Conclusions:
These findings provide evidence that an intervention addressed to in-service teachers that is low-cost and easy to implement can cast corrective effects that persist over time in neuromyth beliefs.
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