Table 2. Portuguese and Swedish teachers’ answers concerning myth/fact statements (N = 133).
| Statements | Incorrect % | Correct % | Don´t know % |
Statistical
test |
P value a | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT | SW | PT | SW | PT | SW | |||
| 1. Students learn best when they receive information in their preferred learning style (M) | 81.4 | 90.3 | 7.2 | 1.6 | 11.4 | 8.1 | Fisher | 2.443 |
| 2. Students show preferences in the way they receive information (F) | 2.9 | 12.7 | 85.7 | 66.7 | 11.4 | 20.6 | χ2 | 7.620 |
| 3. Environments that are rich in stimuli further develop the brain (C) | 85.5 | 88.9 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 13.0 | 7.9 | Fisher | 1.749 |
| 4. There are critical periods for learning (C) | 31.4 | 24.2 | 40 | 53.2 | 28.6 | 22.6 | χ2 | 2.086 |
| 5. Children must acquire their mother tongue before a second language (M) | 35.7 | 31.7 | 34.3 | 57.1 | 30.0 | 11.1 | χ2 | 9.614 |
a p values are NS (or p> 0.05). (M) Myth; (F) Fact; (C) Controversial Myth.