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Analysis of selected geography tests
Macháček, Štěpán ; Řezníčková, Dana (advisor) ; Matějček, Tomáš (referee)
This work aims to use of educational tests in geography. After literature analysis is made a set of criteria for quality assessment tests. Subsequently, the selected criteria are used to evaluate selected geographical tests. Part of research is a questionnaire survey of teachers, which is focused on ways of testing pupils. The experts are pushing to critically address the educational community with regard to the poor situation of testing in schools. At the same time is currently preparing a new state school leaving examination and the question arises whether the proposed illustrative test leaving examination of geography is a step forward. After analyzing this test, noting that this problem in terms of the revised Bloom's taxonomy higher than commonly used tests that were evaluated in the next section. Yet 37.5% of jobs do not qualify in terms of clarity and correctness of the award. Analysis of the test group of 23 normal school practice even harder hit. Conducted survey showed that the methods of testing in schools are very similar. So we can expect that the quality of tests is in most schools at a low level. Despite the number of errors is a new concept of leaving the test step forward, although highly uncertain, lies a shift in quality is evident from the final analysis. Keywords: Educational...
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The environmental literacy testing of primary school pupils and lower grade of secondary school students
Kasková, Barbora ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kučerová, Silvie Rita (referee)
11 ABSTRACT The study reported in this paper was undertaken during autumn 2007 to assess the status of environmental education and awareness of eight-formers living in chosen localities of a different population range. The main objectives of the study were to determine the depth of pupils' knowledge and awareness of environmental issues and problems and their attitude to the environment. Is there a certain homogeneity of environmental awareness and attitudes among most schoolchildren at village, town and the capital? To test the veracity or otherwise of this widely held assumption. The study comprised a detailed questionnaire of a sample of 324 schoolchildren. The study was designed to assess the general characteristics, environmental knowledge, and behavioural pattern of the sample. The research finding in the study indicated that positons of pupils result mainly from all-society views and less reverberate thein own experiences. Informants cann`t context aglomerated enviromental problems with the others global ones yet and they perceive them separately. Only few informats are able to answer what a global problem means. Also a few of them can concretely enumerace just one of the global problems. Lesser of them have awareness of a sustainable growth. Absolute majority of them identify thein selfs with...
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The possibilities of integrated teaching of geography and musical appreciation
Holeček, František ; Ceeová, Zuzana (referee) ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor)
Thesis opens up the new topic - possibilities of integrated teaching of geography and musical appreciation. The issue is soluted in two parts. The first one is the research of literature and resources, and summarizes the theoretical assumptions for the teaching and past experience with integrated teaching. Specifically, this section deals with integrated education in general, integrated education in the Czech Republic in the field of sciences and aesthetics theory. It further process teaching methods suitable for integrated teaching of music appreciation and geography. The second part is a specific finding and suggesting the way of teaching it. From the perspective of the organization of teaching is this part divided into three sections: the integration of music education in the geography lessons, the integration of geography into music lessons and special integrated teaching geography and music appreciation. This section includes specific learning activities for illustration. Keywords: integration, integrated learning, geography, music appreciation, project based learning
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