Perception of Biological Disciplines by Upper Secondary School Students
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10441987" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10441987 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89480-1_17" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89480-1_17</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89480-1_17" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-89480-1_17</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Perception of Biological Disciplines by Upper Secondary School Students
Original language description
We examined how upper secondary school students perceive the usefulness and difficulty of biology disciplines. Czech students (N = 192) from three schools answered a questionnaire with 5-point Likert scales. We tested the influence of gender and experience with the individual biological disciplines at upper secondary school on the perception of the biological disciplines. We examined differences among the perception of individual biological disciplines. All disciplines were perceived as useful for life which did not change during studies. Human biology was perceived as the most useful for life, protozoology was considered the least useful followed by mycology and cell biology. Girls perceived several disciplines as more useful than did boys. The perceived difficulty of some disciplines decreased during studies. Genetics was perceived as the most difficult followed by cell biology. Ecology and environmental protection were perceived as the easiest disciplines. Further research is needed to explain whether pupils feel studying biology answered their questions about nature or their fulfilled their expectations about the complexity of science.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Current Research in Biology Education
ISBN
978-3-030-89479-5
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
219-230
Number of pages of the book
313
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Neuveden
UT code for WoS chapter
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