Facilitating Middle School Students' Reasoning About Vaccines.

ABSTRACT: In a pandemic era, it is necessary to equip individuals with the ability to make informed decisions about health issues, especially in relation to viruses and vaccines. In order to achieve this goal, science educators need to explore students' decisions and reasoning about vaccination. The aim of the study reported in the paper, therefore, is to explore eighth graders' reasoning about vaccination throughout a 4-week implementation of small group and plenary discussion of false claims about vaccinations. The implementation consisted of a five-phase procedure including teacher presentation of false claims and related evidence texts about vaccination, small group discussions, a plenary discussion, and finally, an introduction to valid scientific content about vaccination. The explanations of

SUBMITTER: Cetinkaya E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8894820 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature