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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AM - Pedagogika a školství

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Research in Didactics of the Sciences DidSci 2016

ISBN

978-83-8084-037-9

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

4

Strana od-do

143-146

Název nakladatele

Department of Education of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Geography and Biology, Pedagogical University, Kraków, Poland

Místo vydání

Kraków

Místo konání akce

Kraków

Datum konání akce

29. 6. 2016

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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