学生需要的不仅仅是内容知识来应对疫苗犹
1Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
Journal of microbiology & biology education
|August 24, 2023
概括
本科生很难将生物知识应用于mRNA疫苗等社会科学问题. 提高论证技巧对于明智的决策和对抗错误信息至关重要.
科学领域:
- 生物教育教育 生物学教育
- 社会科学问题 社会科学问题
- 科学传播科学传播
背景情况:
- 信息化的公民需要评估与现实世界的场景相关的科学数据.
- 社会科学问题是复杂的,有争议的话题,需要整合知识和背景.
- 将这些问题纳入课程可以培养批判性论证技巧.
研究的目的:
- 调查本科生生物内容知识与他们的论证技能的关系.
- 评估学生将mRNA疫苗开发和临床试验知识应用于现实世界的背景的能力.
主要方法:
- 评估了学生关于mRNA疫苗开发的初级研究文章的内容知识.
- 评估了学生在与疫苗有关的社会科学问题背景下的论证技巧.
- 分析了对抗疫苗犹的内容知识和论证有效性之间的相关性.
主要成果:
- 在关于疫苗犹的生物内容知识和论证技巧之间没有发现显著的相关性.
- 大多数学生理解了关于mRNA疫苗的初级研究文章.
- 几乎一半的学生未能将特定的生物学知识纳入他们的论点,这表明了应用方面的差距.
结论:
- 学生表明需要更多的机会来练习在社会科学背景下应用生物知识.
- 发展论证技巧对于将科学理解转化为现实世界的决策至关重要.
- 课程应强调弥合内容知识和知识公民的实际应用之间的差距.
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