Newly Designed MBL Activities Perceived by Slovak and Czech Secondary School Teachers (A Comparative Study)

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Newly Designed MBL Activities Perceived by Slovak and Czech Secondary School Teachers (A Comparative Study)

Original language description

Implementation of the microcomputer based laboratory (MBL) seems to be beneficial for students as well as teachers to learn (or teach) some phenomena and themes of science education. Despite its benefits, the implementation of MBL can suffer from some problems, for example (possible) technical problems or just some "technophobia", another issue can be lack of well-designed research based MBL materials. To contribute to this field to support the implementation of MBL into schools, in the framework of European project COMBLAB, new inquiry-based MBL activities on chemistry, biology and physics were designed and developed and, the courses on MBL implementing the newly developed activities were held for Czech (26) and Slovak teachers (16). The opinions and attitudes of the participating teachers were collected through questionnaires evaluated. The questionnaire research showed that all tested activities prepared in the framework of the COMBLAB project were evaluated very positively by the teachers and from their point of view, the activities are well applicable in their lessons. The objectives are defined adequately, instructions are clear and activities have logical structure. Difficulty, duration of the majority of the activities and contents (with respect to school curriculum) are appropriate, nevertheless, in some cases, there was statistically significant differences among the activities. Therefore, in some cases, some changes were made to make the activities shorter and less difficult. Czech and Slovak teachers evaluated the activities very similarly and the results showed no statistically significant difference between Czech and Slovak teachers.

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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

4

Pages from-to

143-146

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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