A socioscientific issues approach to ninth-graders' understanding of COVID-19 on health, wealth, and educational attainments

This study investigated the implementation of a curricular unit of instruction designed to immerse rising ninth-grade students socioscientific issues via data collection and analysis of the relationships between health, wealth, educational attainment, and the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on their...

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Published in:PloS one 2023-03, Vol.18 (3), p.e0280509-e0280509
Main Author: Powell, Wardell
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
African Americans
Biology and Life Sciences
Colleges & universities
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Data collection
Discrimination
Earth Sciences
Economic aspects
Education
Educational Status
Epidemics
Evaluation
Female
Health aspects
Health care disparities
Humans
Male
Massachusetts
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mortality
Pandemics
Schools
Social Sciences
Students
Teaching
Viruses
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Summary:This study investigated the implementation of a curricular unit of instruction designed to immerse rising ninth-grade students socioscientific issues via data collection and analysis of the relationships between health, wealth, educational attainment, and the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on their communities. Twenty-six (n = 26) rising ninth-grade students (14-15 years old; 16 girls, 10 boys) participated in an early college high school program operated by the College Planning Center at a state university in the northeastern United States. The findings of this study demonstrate how ninth-graders enhanced their understanding of the relationships between COVID-19 and community health, wealth, and educational attainments. The students also identified from their research data that communities in Massachusetts that are more educated and with more financial resources were less impacted less by the virus.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0280509