Impact of Biology Education on Infectious Diseases Knowledge among Students in The Municipality of Ilijaš

Abstract

The research in this paper is based on the collection of data on the knowledge of infectious diseases through the application of Sequence of the Objective Type Tasks (SOTT) in elementary school students in the municipality of Ilijaš.This research was conducted on a sample of 123 ninth grade students in the elementary schools "Hašim Spahić" and "Podlugovi".The testing was conducted in the period from May 25 to 31, the 2017/18 school year.The comparison of students' answers to a sequences of 10 questions created according to the material of the biology textbook for the ninth grade of elementary school showed a slightly higher level of knowledge among elementary school students "Podlugovi".Statistical analysis showed that there is no statistically significant difference between the compared classes when it comes to knowledge in the field of infectology.