Lawson classroom test of scientific reasoning at entrance university level

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://balticste.com/BalticSTE21_Proceedings.pdf" target="_blank" >https://balticste.com/BalticSTE21_Proceedings.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/BalticSTE/2021.74" target="_blank" >10.33225/BalticSTE/2021.74</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Lawson classroom test of scientific reasoning at entrance university level

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The Lawson classroom test of scientific reasoning is a quite popular and widely used tool that measures the level and development of the student&apos;s scientific reasoning skills. In this contribution, the results of this test for the N=446 students of the Faculty of Science Palacký University Olomouc from the years 2018-2020 at the beginning of their study were analysed. Calculation of the standard characteristics of the test items (difficulty index, discrimination index and point biserial coefficient) confirms that the test meets the required criteria for the included questions and its overall consistency. Performing the Mann-Whitney rank test with a standard significance level α = .05, the statistically significant difference between males and females was found, on the other hand, no statistically significant difference between the students preparing for their prospective teacher careers and those with technical specializations in chemistry or physics was identified. This contradicts a common belief that students choosing teacher preparation programmes are generally worse in scientific performance and technical subjects. The results also show that about a quoter of the students come to university with a low level of their scientific reasoning skills which should be therefore supported and further developed in lecturing and teaching.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Lawson classroom test of scientific reasoning at entrance university level

Popis výsledku anglicky

The Lawson classroom test of scientific reasoning is a quite popular and widely used tool that measures the level and development of the student&apos;s scientific reasoning skills. In this contribution, the results of this test for the N=446 students of the Faculty of Science Palacký University Olomouc from the years 2018-2020 at the beginning of their study were analysed. Calculation of the standard characteristics of the test items (difficulty index, discrimination index and point biserial coefficient) confirms that the test meets the required criteria for the included questions and its overall consistency. Performing the Mann-Whitney rank test with a standard significance level α = .05, the statistically significant difference between males and females was found, on the other hand, no statistically significant difference between the students preparing for their prospective teacher careers and those with technical specializations in chemistry or physics was identified. This contradicts a common belief that students choosing teacher preparation programmes are generally worse in scientific performance and technical subjects. The results also show that about a quoter of the students come to university with a low level of their scientific reasoning skills which should be therefore supported and further developed in lecturing and teaching.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

Science and technology education: Developing a global perspective. Proceedings of the 4 th International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2021)

ISBN

978-609-95513-8-8

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

74-85

Název nakladatele

Scientia Socialis Press

Místo vydání

Šiauliai

Místo konání akce

Šiauliai , Litva - on-line

Datum konání akce

21. 6. 2021

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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