Attitude towards COVID-19 and its vaccine, of ESO and Baccalaureate students

ABSTRACT

We are in a pandemic situation in which knowing the perception of risk of the virus, and the intention of conduct before the vaccine against it, can provide valuable knowledge to make decisions both in the educational context of the school and in other areas. To advance knowledge on the subject, a quantitative study has been developed in which the responses of 308 ESO and Baccalaureate students, from all over Spain, have been analysed, by means of a previously validated questionnaire. This reinforces the epistemological knowledge of the students' perception of current socio-scientific issues that are present in the public debate at all its scales, also within the classroom. In turn, it seeks to open the door to future studies, which, in comparison with the results of this work and other similar ones, allow to establish what factors affect students' attitudes towards science and to what extent, especially those who allow shedding light on the influence of teaching-learning in science in the classroom compared to learning by other untested means. The results show a distribution of the risk perception and the vaccination intention according to age and gender.