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THE DEVELOPMENT OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE USAGE OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Author(s): Kateřina Chroustová,Martin Bílek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Why don´t we encounter too regularly with the inclusion of educational software in chemistry education in the Czech Republic? What factors affect the usage of educational software? What kind of relationship can be identified between these factors? For the search of answers to those formulated questions was necessary to, first of all, carry out a deep analysis of the conditions that could lead to more effective usage of educational software in chemistry education. In this article, we analyse the factors that affect the usage of educational software in chemistry education with the application of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and the related theories, including a comparison of our results with the results of realized research studies with a similar theme.

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THE USE OF ICT IN THE SCIENCE LESSONS: EXPERIENCE FROM LATVIA

Author(s): Inese Dudareva,Dace Namsone,Liga Cakane / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The implementation of key competences in primary and secondary school education demanded the changes in the Science teaching practice in Latvia. The first research was initiated during the piloting the new curriculum in science and mathematics (2009 – 2011). Lesson observations were the main source of answers to the research: what ICT tools are used by teachers and students in science subjects? What information it gives to us for teachers CPD?

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FIRST STEPS IN ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ INQUIRY: A CASE STUDY OF NON-EXPERIENCED CHEMISTRY TEACHER

Author(s): Karol Dudek,Paweł Bernard,Ewa Odrowąż / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Teaching methods based on inquiry are more and more widely used in teaching natural sciences. In accordance with the new curriculum, introduced to Polish schools in 2008, students should gain new knowledge based on an inquiry. This fact is related to a change of teachers’ approach in the didactic process and a change in the assessment system. This article undertakes an attempt to analyse how a teacher - who has theoretical knowledge in the field of IBSE teaching methods and evaluating students working in this manner - does the said in practice at the level of lower secondary school, during chemistry classes. The presented case study is based on didactic materials developed at the SAILS project.

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TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN EDUCATION IS NEAR

Author(s): Andrej Flogie,Kosta Dolenc,Boris Aberšek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In ancient Greece, knowledge was not neatly contained in distinct disciplines and leading scholars moved freely among different fields. The influence of reductionism, which began with Aristoteles and has continued ever since, created disciplines with precise boundaries. With such disciplinary approach, each field evolves independently as a specialized set of tools of analysis. The question arises: are these boundaries still necessary nowadays or must we look on the teaching/learning process more transdisciplinary? In this contribution, one of the possible ways will be shown and evaluated, how to model and apply an appropriate solution.

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SOME ASPECTS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE THEMATIC TESTS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF COGNITIVE LEARNING OUTCOMES CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Author(s): Liudmila Gorbunova / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article discusses the procedure of the preparation of test materials for the diagnosis of cognitive learning outcomes in chemistry. It is shown that the use of the thesaurus approach to the selection of the content and methods of mathematical statistics provides a test with high reliability and validity coefficients.

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EXAMINING EFFECT OF ANIMATION APPLICATIONS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COURSE

Author(s): Sedat Yüksel,Mestan Boyaci / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The aim of this study was to determine whether or not animation applications affect student achievement in science and technology course. For this purpose, effect of constructive approach supported by animations in the instruction of the unit “Living Organisms and Energy” to the 8th grade students on their academic achievement was investigated. This unit was taught to the experimental group using a constructivist approach supported by animations and to the control group using a constructivist approach without animations. For data collection, an achievement was developed and administered to experimental and control groups as pre-tests and post-tests. Collected data was analyzed using t-test and MANOVA. As a result of the research, it was revealed that supporting the constructivist approach with animations was more effective in increasing academic achievement.

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AN APPROACH TO TEACHING MEDICAL CHEMISTRY THAT HIGHLIGHTS INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF SCIENCE

Author(s): Aris Kaksis,Agnese Brangule,Mihails Halitovs / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with questions concerning energies and work of a system. It is one of the key topics for understanding processes in the universe as well as any separate system like a gas mixture or a single cell in a biological system. Thermodynamics is included in the university curriculum for engineering, chemistry and physics students as well as medical student curriculum.This paper outlines the problems faced by first year medical students learning thermodynamics at Riga Stradinš University. We describe a medically relevant context based approach to teaching that demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of medical chemistry, molecular biology and biochemistry. Our method provides a model in which disciplinary barriers are diminished and increased effectiveness of teaching is achieved.

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USAGE OF CRITICAL THINKING PRINCIPLES IN MEDICAL CHEMISTRY COURSE

Author(s): Irina Kazuša / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This research describes the development of didactic model based on critical thinking principles and its practical approbation in medical chemistry course. The effectiveness of the didactic model is evaluated as achieved level in medical chemistry course (theoretic knowledge, experimentation skills and problem solving skills) using critical thinking development methods. In addition to this, self-assessment skills and development of studying skills are also analyzed.

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STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE REGARDING USE OF FRAYER MODEL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPREHENSION OF CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS

Author(s): Silvija Kreile / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Acquirement of chemistry is connected to cognitive process, where concepts and understanding of those play an important role, which have to be formed already in school. This is where concept mapping comes to be a key element. Frayer model is known as one of graphical organizers for development of the comprehension of concepts. It has not been widely used in Latvia as yet. The goal of this research was to find out what students from secondary and upper-secondary schools think of the Frayer model.

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THE ROLE OF GAME ELEMENTS IN CHEMISTRY ACQUIREMENT

Author(s): Emilija Lesina,Sandra Kalnina / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The method of a game as a tool in teaching Chemistry is described in the paper. The example is given based on a lesson fragment where the elements of a game are used by elementary school pupils who can acquire the skills of using solubility table by learning to compose the formulas of chemical substances. The method allows pupils to understand the structure of substances and secure their skills to use the solubility table practically. Therefore, it is easier to learn Chemistry in the future.

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ACQUISITION OF SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGY COMPETENCES BY PRIMARY PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: MYTH OR REALITY?

Author(s): Abdeljalil Métioui,Louis Trudel / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In the present research of a qualitative type, we present the results of an experimentation led with 94 pre-service primary teachers from Quebec in Canada. The experimentation, which lasts four months at the rate of three hours per week, took place in two phases. The first phase took place in 4 steps in order to help student teachers to acquire knowledge competency in science and pedagogical knowledge competency, in accordance with the curriculum of the ministry of the education of the government of Quebec. In the second phase, the students had to prepare two teaching sequences centered on laboratory experimentations to the intention of their future pupils of the first, second or third cycle (please note that each cycle lasts for two years). For it, they had to follow an approach similar to the one experienced in the first phase. Finally, they had to complete a questionnaire to specify the difficulties of a scientific or pedagogical nature that they encountered during the conceptions of their teaching sequences. The analysis of the sequences constructed and of the data of the questionnaire shows an effort important on their behalf, in spite of the difficulties they met and that will be presented.

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A FLASH OF CONSTRUCTION SCHEMES COLLECTIVE IN THE CLASSROOM INVOLVING THE FIELD STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR

Author(s): Marcelo Gouveia Nascimento,Gabriel Nicolas Garcia Alves,Marco Antonio Bueno Filho,Rodrigo Luiz Oliveira Rodrigues Cunha / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study aims to access information about how college students collectively build action schemes in structural molecular level. The research had two situations presented to six students and Bachelor Degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of ABC involving content on Liquid Chromatography. The speeches of students organized in groups were recorded in audiovisual and subjected to Textual Analysis Discourse and grounded in the theory of Conceptual Fields (Vergnaud, 1996). The results were assessed, evidence of the collective construction of a scheme characterized by relevant conceptual relationships at the molecular structural field, but incomplete.

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EVALUATING THE POTENTIALS OF ICT INTEGRATION IN TEACHING WITH THE AIM OF INTENTIONALLY DEVELOPING COMPETENCIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY IN PUPILS

Author(s): Mateja Ploj Virtič,Kosta Dolenc / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

With an increasing impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on the way we live and work, the educational institutions also try to transform educational curricula and learning environments in order to fill the technological gap that has emerged in the field of education. This conversion process requires the effective integration of technology into an existing learning environment, and in the first place train the teachers, whose role in the classroom completely changes by introducing technology.The paper presents an example of integrating innovative pedagogy in the process of future teachers’ education and qualitative research, which examines the usefulness of ICT in learning activities for intentional development of competencies for the 21st century learners.

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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SCHOOLS OF LATVIA

Author(s): Juris Porozovs,Anita Migleniece,Daina Voita,Alvis Valdemiers / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Modern education is closely connected with implementation and using of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the teaching process. The questionnaire of teachers and directors of Latvia schools was carried out in order to evaluate the situation of ICT in schools and the attitude of school pedagogues toward this process. The results of the questionnaire showed that supply of schools with modern ICT in Latvia is not sufficient. The respondents expressed their views: what are the main obstacles of effective implementation of ICT in the study process and what are the priority challenges in the implementation of ICT in schools.

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DISCUSSION OF VISUAL ATTENTION FOR SOLVING MULTIPLE CHOICE SCIENCE PROBLEM: AN EYE-TRACKING ANALYSIS

Author(s): Mirosława Sajka,Roman ROSIEK / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Eye-tracking technology was used to analyze the participants’ visual attention while solving a multiple-choice science problem. The research encompassed 103 people of varying levels of knowledge, from pupils to scientists. The respondents in general devoted more time to analyze the chosen fields. However, the trend is reversed for people with high scientific expertise and criticism and with extreme motivation to solve a problem. The trend depends also on the strategies of solving a problem and conviction about the correctness of the answer.

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DESIGNING A BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT SELF-DIRECTED AND SELF-REGULATED LEARNING

Author(s): Aysan Şentürk / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In this study, a blended learning environment was designed for sixty students from Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Department, taking Programming Languages course. The environment was designed to support self-directed and self-regulated learning. Interviews with open ended questions were used as data collection instruments. According to the qualitative data collected in this study it was concluded that students were satisfied using that learning environment.

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THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF VISION THERAPY IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

Author(s): Violeta Šlekienė,Loreta Ragulienė / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The efficiency and quality of the vision is one of the key challenges of a modern life. The goal of the paper is to reveal a need of vision therapy and preventive vision improvement in a general education school. The aim of vision therapy is to improve vision and efficiency of the vision and to find ways to further improve quality of vision. Vision therapy is usually individually tailored to each and every person in order to clarify the issues. Worldwide, doctors caring for patients’ vision, lots of attention devote for improvement of eye prophylaxis treatment during special training. Vision therapy is used to address these issues: insufficiency of accommodation, problems of presbyopia and amblyopia, convergence or divergence, dyslexia, after Strabismus surgery and others. Permanent eye exercise not only improves vision, but also prevents the eyes from harmful effects of environment.

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DEVELEPMENT OF COMPUTER-BASED EDUCATIONAL GAME ACROSS COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM

Author(s): Dzintars Tomsons,Inta Znotiņa / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The current paper describes the use of game development for improvement of first year Computer Science students’ professional and social competencies. The computer-based education games play grateful platform for integration of knowledge and skills gained by students in several learning courses, i.e., programming, web-design, computer graphics and animation, introduction to software engineering, etc. The multidisciplinary character of the games provides possibilities to constitute teams with students from different study programs. Thereby the students get their first experience in cross-disciplinary communication.

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ON VOLUME OF THE ANTIPRISM IN CUBE AS A COMPLEX MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM

Author(s): Lukáš Vízek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper shows the mathematical task, calculation of the volume of the antiprism in cube as a secondary school mathematical problem, which can help to teach mathematics in the relationship between its parts. The contribution brings the mathematical background, mentions experiences with them as well as visualizations and the possibilities of its completion.

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CHEMISTRY OF PAINTINGS OR HOW TO INVOLVE 8-10 Y.O. CHILDREN FOR A TWO-HOUR SESSION WITHOUT BREAKS

Author(s): Denis M. Zhilin,Marina Tokareva / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper describes the experience of sessions on chemistry of paintings and chemistry of pencils for 8-10 y.o. pupils and their parents. The session consisted of lecture on the history of paints and pencils and laboratory sub-session where the participants made paints and pencils themselves. The participants could quit whenever they wanted, but really worked for more than two hours without break, that is extremely long for this age. We think that the reason is a diverse activity and a bright output.

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