Czech and Slovak intended curricula in science subjects and mathematics: a comparative study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11320/24:10478548

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=-hkW6mmNAi" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=-hkW6mmNAi</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2023.2243372" target="_blank" >10.1080/09500693.2023.2243372</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech and Slovak intended curricula in science subjects and mathematics: a comparative study

Original language description

A curriculum is generally regarded as an instructional plan that describes what, why and how students should learn. In this comparative study, we analysed the Czech and Slovak intended curricula of science subjects (physics, chemistry, biology, geography, and geology) and mathematics by comparing their national curriculum documents in terms of learning outcomes at the lower secondary level (ISCED level 2). Our analysis showed significant differences in the number of obligatory learning outcomes, which were much higher in the Slovak curriculum than in the Czech curriculum. The structure of these outcomes also differed across subjects and between countries. Nevertheless, the cognitive demands of the learning outcomes analysed using the revised Bloom&apos;s taxonomy were similar in the two countries, but metacognitive knowledge and higher-level cognitive processes were rarely represented in either. Additionally, by inductive content analysis of the Slovak curriculum document, we identified two significant groups of cross-curricular requirements, namely outcomes related to scientific inquiry and outcomes requiring working with information. Overall, these learning outcomes are underrepresented in both analysed documents (particularly in the Czech document) even though the skills that these outcomes develop are in high demand in the current context.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Science Education

ISSN

0950-0693

e-ISSN

1464-5289

Volume of the periodical

46

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

440-461

UT code for WoS article

001046002300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85167780839