Güncel Tunus Biyoloji Ders Kitaplarında İmmünolojik Kavramlara İlişkin Kavram Yanılgıları

Authors : Chaker BENNOUR

Pages : 69-80

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Publication Date : 2021-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Textbook remains a compulsory reference document especially for students and teachers. Although, it may be a source of misconceptions. The goal of this paper is to determine misconceptions about immunological concepts in current tunisian biology textbooks based on Hershey method. Textbooks content is compared to books and papers reference contents. Misconceptions obtained are categorized in five categories : over-generalization, under-generalization, over-simplification, mis-identification and obsolete concepts and terms. Results show that all textbooks analyzed contain mistakes, textbooks that contain the highest number of misconceptions are the 4th SSTLESESS and 1st SSTLES because they are the oldest, wheras the lowest one is the 3ed SSBSSS because its the newest. The highest categories are over-generalization and under-generalization while the lowst one is over-simplification. The highest sub-concept that is mistakenly conceived is pathogens and diseases while the lowest one is immune barriers. Furthermore, same misconceptions are found in different textbooks. Furethemore, their content must be updated according to recent scientific progress.
Keywords : Misconceptions, biology textbooks, immunological concepts