Misconceptions about the menstrual cycle among students of the teaching major of the integrated study of biology and chemistry
| Autor: | Sirovina, Damir |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Educatio biologiae Issue 8. |
| ISSN: | 1849-6520 |
| Popis: | Dosad provedena istraživanja o miskoncepcijama o menstruacijskom ciklusu pokazala su da su miskoncepcije široko rasprostranjene u različitim populacijama i da razina obrazovanja nema bitan učinak na tu pojavu. Najčešće miskoncepcije su da se ovulacija odvija u sredini ciklusa ili da se odvija četrnaestog dana ciklusa. Utvrđeno je da zabilježene miskoncepcije proizlaze iz prikaza menstruacijskog ciklusa od 28 dana koji je prisutan posvuda, bez iznimki. Unatoč pronađenom rješenju, materijal za poučavanje se nije mijenjao. Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je utvrditi prisutnost miskoncepcija o menstruacijskom ciklusu kod studenata nastavničkog smjera integriranog studija biologije i kemije i njihovu sposobnost određivanja dana ovulacije u ciklusu koji ne traje 28 dana te usporediti rezultate s rezultatima istraživanja koje je ranije provedeno na uzorku učenika gimnazija u Zagrebu, a čiji su rezultati objavljeni 2018. godine. Istraživanje je provedeno na uzorku od ukupno 98 studenata tijekom šest godina, od 2012. do 2017. godine. Rezultati pokazuju da je udio studenata koji su točno odredili dan ovulacije mali i ne značajno bolji od rezultata koje su postigli gimnazijalci i da je udio miskoncepcija u njihovim obrazloženjima vrlo velik te da je, unatoč višekratnom poučavanju o menstruacijskom ciklusu ili možda upravo zbog poučavanja uz pomoć neprimjerenog vizualnog materijala, pojava miskoncepcija jače izražena nego kod gimnazijalaca. A large number of scientific articles shown that misconceptions about the menstrual cycle are widespread in different populations and that the level of education has no significant effect on this phenomenon. The most common misconceptions are that that ovulation occurs in the middle of the cycle or that ovulation occurs on the fourteenth day of the cycle. It was found that the recorded misconceptions origin from the representation of the 28-day menstrual cycle that is present in all educational materials, without exception. Despite the solution found, the teaching material did not change. The aim of this research was to determine the presence of misconceptions about the menstrual cycle among students of the Integrated undergraduate and graduate programme Biology and Chemistry Education and their ability to determine the day of ovulation in a cycle that does not last 28 days. Furthermore, another aim was to compare the results of the university students with the results of a previously conducted research on a sample of high school students in Zagreb, published in 2018. The research was conducted on a sample of a total of 98 students in a period of six years, from 2012 to 2017. The results show that the proportion of students who accurately determined the day of ovulation is small and not significantly higher than the results achieved by high school students, and that the proportion of misconceptions in their explanations is very high. Furthermore, results show that, despite repeated teaching about the menstrual cycle or perhaps because of teaching with the help of inappropriate visual material, the occurrence of misconceptions is more pronounced among university students than among high school students. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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