AN IMPACT OF GUIDED INQUIRY ON STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF PLANT WATER METABOLISM - A CASE STUDY

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2016.0717" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2016.0717</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2016.0717" target="_blank" >10.21125/iceri.2016.0717</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

AN IMPACT OF GUIDED INQUIRY ON STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF PLANT WATER METABOLISM - A CASE STUDY

Original language description

In this contribution the results of the implementation of the inquiry based teaching program focused on plant water metabolism and findings of the research aimed to the influence of this teaching program on students' achievement are presented. The high school students of the second grade were taught by using teaching program constructed according to the rules of guided inquiry learning. The design of the teaching program is described as well. An impact of this teaching program on the students' knowledge of plant water metabolism was tested via the didactic test. To enable the assessment of students' achievement from different points of view and to obtain a complex information, several types of questions were used: multiple-choice questions, open form questions and also questions requiring answers including problem solving skills. The results of the focus group were compared to the results of the control group taught by classical frontal teaching. Totally 90 students were tested. According to the results of our research, the guided inquiry approach used in teaching plant water metabolism increased significantly students' achievement. Substantial improvement of focus group as compared to the control group was detected in particular in the open questions and the problem solving questions, i.e. questions, requiring deeper insight into the topic and formulation of accurate explanations. Also in questions requiring responses based on the memorization strategies ( multiple-choice questions) the students taught by guided inquiry approach reached slightly better results as the students taught by teacher centered frontal teaching, but the differences were not so significant as in open form questions. Based on these findings, we concluded, that guided inquiry approach used in teaching program aimed to the plant water metabolism is suitable for the improvement of students' achievement and enhances high school students understanding of the role of plants in human environment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AM - Pedagogy and education

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

ICERI2016 Proceedings of the 9th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation

ISBN

978-84-617-5895-1

ISSN

2340-1095

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

7533-7538

Publisher name

IATED

Place of publication

Valencia

Event location

Seville, Spain

Event date

Nov 14, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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