Using a questionnaire to investigate Brazilian primary school pupil´s knowledge and attitudes towards "bad" mosquitoes and "beautiful" butterflies
- 1. Laboratório de Metabolismo Celular, Neurociência e Educação em Ciência Emergente, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Cel. Francisco H. dos Santos, s/n, 80050-540, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil.
- 2. University College London, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, Bloomsbury London WC1H OAL, United Kingdom.
Description
Children have a basic knowledge of insects that they see during their everyday life out of school such as in their
garden, round the house, walking around the block where they live or in the yard on school gardens or orchard.
We sought to establish the level of knowledge amongst schools aged pupils. We have to understand the
knowledge of mosquitoes and butterflies related to humans because mosquitoes are important vectors for
Dengue fever in Brazil. A total of 361 children aged 3 to 16 years old enrolled in two southern Brazilian urban
and rural public schools were invited to participate in this exploratory study. A5 point Likert scale questionnaire
was developed. The scale categories varied from strongly disagree to strongly agree as contents of the questions.
The scale consisted of 22 biological statements: 11 for the mosquitoes and 11 for the butterfly. The questions
were designed to explore what attitudes and knowledge about butterflies and mosquitoes.
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