Secondary School Students- Perceptions about Biological Issues in South Korea

The purpose of present paper was to investigate perceptions of Korean secondary school students about social issues related to biological sciences. Twenty issues were selected based on topics of articles in the newspaper from 2005 to 2010. The issues were categorized into biotechnology, health-disease and environment domains. Subjects were 541 high school students (male 253 and female 288). On the survey, students were asked to answer on 5-point Lickert scales how they thought of the effect of biological phenomena or events related to biological issues on the individual life and the society. They perceived that the biological issues would be more effectible on the society than on the individual life. Female students had a little more perceptions than males.

Authors:

• Jung-Hyun Kim
• Kew-Cheol Shim
• Shin-Cheol Song
• Kyoungho Kim
• Nam-Il Kim
• Jinho Bae
• Keum-Hyun So

Keywords:

• biological issue
• biological sciences
• perception
• secondary school

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