@article {920,
	title = {UNDERSTANDING PRE-SERVICE TEACHER CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NUTRITION PROCESSES THROUGH DRAWINGS},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {19},
	year = {2020},
	month = {December/2020},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {1008-1019},
	abstract = {Teachers{\textquoteright} subject matter knowledge is a substantive component of the teaching-learning process. For a teacher to be able to transform and integrate into the classroom all the knowledge and experience they have acquired in the course of the professional activity, it is first necessary to acquire a deep and solid knowledge of the matter. The aim of the research was to analyse the understanding that pre-service teachers have about the physiology and anatomy of the human body. The alternative conceptions that pre-service teachers held about the nutritional function in living beings were also explored. The research was conducted on a biology course of the Primary Education Bachelor{\textquoteright}s Degree during the 2018/2019 academic year. Drawings and open-ended questions were collected from 96 pre-service teachers. The results reveal that the students surveyed have limited knowledge of the subject before entering university. The use of drawing proved to be an excellent tool for detecting previous conceptions and evaluating the progression made by the students in their learning. Numerous alternative conceptions were identified among the students, thus demonstrating the need to think about the scientific methodology used to teach these contents.},
	keywords = {alternative conceptions, human body, human nutrition, pre-service teacher{\textquoteright}s drawings, subject matter knowledge},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/20.19.1008 },
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2020/987-1606572998.pdf},
	author = {Reinoso Tapia, R. and Jaime Delgado-Iglesias}
}
@article {780,
	title = {EXAMINING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS{\textquoteright} MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY: CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE METHODS OF DRAWING AND OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {18},
	year = {2019},
	month = {August/2019},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {549-557},
	abstract = {Students of various age groups manifest numerous explanations that differ from what is known to be scientifically correct. Misconceptions about the human body are one of the best studied areas of students{\textquoteright} understanding of scientific phenomena. To explore misconceptions, researchers have at their disposal various methods which can lead to different results. In order to find an effective, cheap and representative diagnostic instrument, correlations between scores obtained by open-ended questions and drawings on the example of the human circulatory system were examined. Open-ended questions provide a more complete understanding of student learning but are harder to evaluate objectively in comparison with drawings, particularly in cross-cultural research. Correlations among scores obtained by these two methods in the present research were moderate, which suggests that drawings reflect students{\textquoteright} understanding of the circulatory system, albeit not perfectly. Although drawings probably never provide a complete understanding of children{\textquoteright}s ideas about science, this cheap and time effective method is recommended particularly in cross-cultural research, where standard, comparable conditions are hard to achieve. },
	keywords = {circulatory system, human body, human heart, students{\textquoteright} ideas},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/19.18.549 },
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2019/987-1564686168.pdf},
	author = {Jana Fan{\v c}ovi{\v c}ov{\'a} and Pavol Prokop}
}
@article {373,
	title = {ARE STORKS HOMOSEXUALS? PERSISTENCE OF MISCONCEPTIONS AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2013},
	month = {August/2013},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {448{\textendash}457 },
	abstract = {The misconceptions about different scientific phenomena are persisting from childhood till adulthood and no method managed to transform it into the correct form. The study is focused on finding out the misconceptions about common facts of zoology and also human body. The respondents were 112 university students. Among these respondents were 22 science major students and the rest of the respondents were non-science majors. The number of females was 82. All respondents are potentially future teachers at elementary schools, so there is a great chance/ possibility they will teach pupils and present them the kinds of information which are investigated in this study. Research tool contained 7 items, most of them were from the field of zoology and one from the field of human anatomy. Obtained data were analysed by the proportional ratio of correct and incorrect answers and the chi-square test was used for the determination of differences between groups of variables gender and field of study. There was not found a significant difference between males and females and science major students often answered some items more. There were found many misconceptions about common facts of zoology and human body. },
	keywords = {human body, misconceptions, university students},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/14.13.448},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2015/987-1447523229.pdf},
	author = {Milan Kubiatko and Kristyna Balatova}
}
@article {119,
	title = {STUDENTS{\textquoteright} IDEAS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY: DO THEY REALLY DRAW WHAT THEY KNOW?},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2006},
	month = {October/2006},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {86-95},
	abstract = {There are several ways for gathering information about student{\textquoteright}s knowledge. Interviews or written tests with open-ended questions may effectively elicit students in-depth thinking, but they are difficult to quantify and some times subjective. In contrast, drawings have been considered as a simple research instrument that enables easy comparisons at the international level. We investigated relationships between the level of understanding shown by university students{\textquoteright} written responses focused on the function of bodily organs/organ systems and their ideas about the human body drawn on separate sheets of paper. We failed to find any relationship between these two methods. We propose that using the method of drawing in combination with written responses (or interviews) would provide more reliable information about children{\textquoteright}s understanding about scientific phenomena including the human body.},
	keywords = {drawings, human body, misconception, research methods},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/987-1404235145.pdf},
	author = {Pavol Prokop and Jana Fan{\v c}ovi{\v c}ov{\'a}}
}
