Chemistry Race/Chemiklánĺ: Team-Based Competition in Chemistry
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60461373%3A22340%2F21%3A43923071" target="_blank" >RIV/60461373:22340/21:43923071 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00763" target="_blank" >http://10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00763</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00763" target="_blank" >10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00763</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Chemistry Race/Chemiklánĺ: Team-Based Competition in Chemistry
Original language description
Identification and further motivation of gifted students are widely discussed among the science education community. In the context of the educational system of the Czech Republic, competitions serve as one of the main ways to identify those gifted in precollege education. In this article, we report the foundation of a team-based open-book competition in chemistry. The competition targets upper-secondary-school students with an interest in chemistry. We describe the organizational process of the competition, including the selection and reviewing of questions. We discuss the personal requirements for organizing staff, the need to train them adequately, and various ways of supporting them. We explain the scoring system and discuss the score data from years 2016-2020, assessing the difficulty of the question sets and proposing an optimal difficulty profile. The competition has been held concurrently in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom since 2020 and has the potential for further internationalization. ©
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Chemical Education
ISSN
1938-1328
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
98
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
3878-3883
UT code for WoS article
000731641200029
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85119046871