Finding misconceptions about virus and COVID-19 topics in biology textbooks used by high school students as portrays of online learning during the outbreak

To learn the material that the teacher is teaching, the students use teaching resources. Student acquisition is aided by easily accessible teaching resources. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered distance education. There is no reliable digital version of a textbook after they are difficult to obtain. Students studying epidemic biology are likely to hold false beliefs. The lack of digital versions of teaching resources, inaccurate teaching methods, and outdated teaching materials all contribute to misconceptions. In a public high school in Padang City, West Sumatra, conceptual errors in online teaching materials on viruses and COVID-19 were to be found, according to this study. 1 120 class X MIPA students and 20 biology teachers used 4 textbooks and 1 teaching module for online learning. Most teaching materials misidentified scientific concepts, applied out-of-date concepts, and overgeneralised concepts to viruses and COVID-19, according to five indicators of textbook misconceptions.