Būsimųjų mokytojų tiriamosios veiklos ir vadovavimo tiriamajai veiklai kompetencija: palyginamasis aspektas
Pre-Service Teachers' Competence in Research and Conducting Research Activity: the Comparative Aspect

Summary/Abstract: The article examines Vilnius Pedagogic University students' attitude to research activity within teaching practice in comprehensive school. Two direc-tions in research activity in comprehensive school can be distinguished: activity directly related to scientific research and activity related to the reflexion of educational practice. The teachers are provided the possibility of conducting scientific research while participating in investigations and supporting the inquiry-based projects at national level as well as taking part in continuous professional studies in order to get a scientific degree. Moreover, teacher's research activity is disclosed in educational practice reflecting educational experience and trying to broaden it with the implication of innovative educational technologies. The researched data shows that preservice teachers' research activity frequently carries out a reflexive character. However, within teaching practice, pre-service teachers are involved in different scientific research activity and supervise research projects carried out by the comprehensive school students. Approxi-mately four fifths of the respondents participated in educational research. Good students' competence in research disclosed their ability to plan and conduct research and to prepare a research report. Neverthe-less, more than one third of the respondents pointed out they had never disseminated the results of the carried out research. A comparison of the respondents' attitudes to-wards competence in research and conducting research activity reveals that in all cases a statistically significant deviation was established. The deviation was determined by the fact that in all cases of comparison the students more positively evaluated abili-ties to research rather than to conduct learners' research activity.

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