%0 Journal Article 
%A Dorca-Fornell, Carmen
%A Lara Nieto-Márquez, Natalia
%A Gómez-Sebastián, Silvia
%A Josa Prado, Fernando
%T Pre and post-pandemic perception of science: a case study uponscientific communication in secondary educationdidactics


%D 2023
%@ 2172-7910
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31866
%X Social perception of science is a multi-faceted concept that helps to understand the evolving relations between the knowledge ecosystem and the public opinions and views on it. Science  communication  is  a  key  aspect  of  science  perception  as  a  flow  of  information  from science,  research  and  innovation  professionals  to  civil  society  that  helps  to  shapeits conceptions/opinions. This work is framed into a science outreach activity, in which scientists directly  interacted  with  secondary  educational  centres,  to  analyse  the  effect  of  scientific communication as a didactic methodology. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we hypothesised that this could have affected these students’ perception of science. We used grouped-longitudinalquantitative methodology to address this hypothesis and evaluatedthe changes in perception of science through a survey scored twice; firstly, after a scientific communication (pre-pandemic) and  secondly,  after  students  returned  to  classes  (post-pandemic).  Results  showed  COVID-19 pandemic  has  positively  influenced  the  interest  in  science  in  society.  Interestingly,  students declared a loss of confidence in scientific integrity due to a lack of transparency of the scientific news  in  post-pandemic  surveys.  These  results  suggest  the  need  to  have  access  to  clear  and scientifically validated information to increase the positive social perception of this stratum of society.


%K Scientific communication
%K Perception of Science
%K Secondary Education
%K Science
%K culture and society
%K Pre and post-COVID-19 pandemic
%K Comunicação científica
%K Percepção da Ciência
%K Educação Secundária
%K cultura e sociedade
%K Pré e pós-pandemia de COVID-19
%K Comunicación científica
%K Percepción de la Ciencia
%K Educación Secundaria
%K Ciencia
%K cultura y sociedad
%K Pre y post pandemia de COVID-19
%~ Universidad de Cádiz