RT journal article
T1 Pre and post-pandemic perception of science: a case study uponscientific communication in secondary educationdidactics
T2 Percepción de la ciencia pre y post-pandemia: un estudio de caso sobre la comunicación científica en la didáctica de la Educación Secundaria
A1 Dorca-Fornell, Carmen
A1 Lara Nieto-Márquez, Natalia
A1 Gómez-Sebastián, Silvia
A1 Josa Prado, Fernando
K1 Scientific communication
K1 Perception of Science
K1 Secondary Education
K1 Science
K1 culture and society
K1 Pre and post-COVID-19 pandemic
K1 Comunicação científica
K1 Percepção da Ciência
K1 Educação Secundária
K1 cultura e sociedade
K1 Pré e pós-pandemia de COVID-19
K1 Comunicación científica
K1 Percepción de la Ciencia
K1 Educación Secundaria
K1 Ciencia
K1 cultura y sociedad
K1 Pre y post pandemia de COVID-19
AB 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.
PB Editorial UCA
SN 2172-7910
YR 2023
FD 2023-10-30
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31866
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31866
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026