ANÁLISE DO CONHECIMENTO MICROBIOLÓGICO NO ENSINO MÉDIO DE ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS E PARTICULARES DA CIDADE DE SANTA HELENA DE GOIÁS

Abstract

The knowledge about Microbiology is fundamentally important, given the moment we are experiencing, a global pandemic caused by a virus, the disease Covid-19. All information about the disease was questioned and studied several times, by several people around the world. Many questions have been raised by ordinary people, who know little or nothing about the subject, and who believe a lot of fake news. On the other hand, it is possible that the socioeconomic condition of students directly influences the level of knowledge about basic knowledge in the field of microbiology. Thus, this research aimed to understand what high school students from Santa Helena de Goiás know about Microbiology, focusing on viruses and bacteria, and how the type of school may have affected this knowledge. Our results showed higher rates of wrong answers or evasion of questions for students from public schools, while for students from private schools, higher rates of correct answers and lower evasion were verified.