Chemistry Education at Elementary Schools in the Czech Republic: Target Skills and Popularity of the Subject

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14410/12:00057876
Result on the web
<a href="http://uatacz.up.krakow.pl/~wwwchemia/pliki/ISBN_978_83_7271_764_1_Chemistry_education_in_the_light_of_the_research" target="_blank" >http://uatacz.up.krakow.pl/~wwwchemia/pliki/ISBN_978_83_7271_764_1_Chemistry_education_in_the_light_of_the_research</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Chemistry Education at Elementary Schools in the Czech Republic: Target Skills and Popularity of the Subject
Original language description
As it has been shown, chemistry in the Czech Republic has for a long time been one of the less popular subjects at primary schools. The goal of our research was first to check this situation during the ongoing educational reform in connection with its implementation into schools, second to find out how much correspond wishes of pupils (regarding their target chemical skills) with chemistry subject matter. A questionnaire about popularity of chemistry was answered in the end of January 2010 by 866 primary school pupils (8th grades of study). The results were compared to an analogical research undertaken earlier by Budiš (1996). Then (May - June 2011), 984 upper primary schools pupils (and pupils of corresponding grades of eight-years high schools) answered a questionnaire looking into pupils' wishes about their target chemical skills. We found out that the school subject chemistry is now more popular than in the year 1996. It might be (as follows from the comparison of chemistry subject
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP407%2F10%2F0514" target="_blank" >GAP407/10/0514: Pupils´ skills in biology, geography and chemistry: research on intended, realized and acquired curriculum in curricular reform implementation phase</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Chemistry Education in the Light of the Research
ISBN
978-83-7271-764-1
Number of pages of the result
4
Pages from-to
11-14
Number of pages of the book
146
Publisher name
Peadagogical University of Kraków, Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education
Place of publication
Kraków
UT code for WoS chapter
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