Two Interventions to Improve Knowledge of Scientific and Dissemination Articles in First-Year University Students

  1. Zorzo, Candela
  2. Fernández-Baizán, Cristina
  3. Gutiérrez Menéndez, Alba
  4. Banqueri, María
  5. Higarza, Sara G
  6. Méndez, Marta
Revista:
International Journal of Educational Psychology: IJEP

ISSN: 2014-3591

Año de publicación: 2021

Título del ejemplar: June

Volumen: 10

Número: 2

Páginas: 172-198

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.17583/IJEP.2021.5737 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: International Journal of Educational Psychology: IJEP

Resumen

The representations of science in mass media have shown a significant increase in the last years. However, mass media dissemination activities can extend to pseudoscience due to the fact that not all scientific news are published with the same rigour. Thus, we aimed to develop two theoretical-practical interventions among first-year university students with the purpose of improving their knowledge about scientific studies and original scientific sources, as well as to critically analyze dissemination of scientific research in media. The interventions had a positive impact on knowledge about scientific information sources, particularly Pubmed, in addition to reducing the number of incorrect features linked to both scientific and dissemination articles, suggesting the importance of interventions focused on misconceptions. However, students showed knowledge of correct features of scientific articles, independently of our intervention, and they made more mistakes when attributing incorrect features to scientific articles when compared to dissemination ones.

Información de financiación

We thank University of Oviedo for giving us the opportunity to carry out these projects: (PINN-18-A-068) (PINN-19-A-071).

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