Comprehending Newly Designed Activities for Computer Based Science Lab by Slovak and Czech Students

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comprehending Newly Designed Activities for Computer Based Science Lab by Slovak and Czech Students

Original language description

Computer supported experimenting is considered an important part of the science education. In this context, one of the roles of researchers working in the field is to design new activities and experimental tasks for computer based laboratories. The framework for this study is a set of newly designed research-based computer aided laboratory activities for Chemistry and Biology proposed in the last 4 years by the international team consisted of researchers from 5 European countries (Tortosa et al., 2014). Herein, we present the partial outcomes resulting from Czech and Slovak part of the research focusing on answering the main question: "Do students understand the objectives and the point of the activities?". In our study we tested 18 activities (12 for Chemistry and 6 for Biology). In total, 1408 evaluations of the mentioned activities (932 in Czech Republic and 476 in Slovakia) were performed with students from 15 participating schools. In order to gain a relevant feedback about the quality of the activities a special tool (a questionnaire) has been administered to students after performing each activity. The findings of the study suggest that the tested materials could be useful and of quality for the most of the students. However, in accordance with our previous studies (Tortosa et al., 2013; Skoršepa, 2015), the actual study also uncovered that the most students perceive their level of activity understanding more positively in comparison to the reality.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AM - Pedagogy and education

OECD FORD branch

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Research in Didactics of the Sciences DidSci 2016

ISBN

978-83-8084-037-9

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Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

136-138

Publisher name

Department of Education of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Geography and Biology, Pedagogical University, Kraków, Poland

Place of publication

Kraków

Event location

Kraków

Event date

Jun 29, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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