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The Purpose of the Subject of Biology for Lower Secondary School Pupils and the Influence of Modern Technologies on Teaching Science in Large City Comprehensive School
Štiková, Štěpánka ; Řezníček, Jan (advisor) ; Němečková, Linda (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on lower secondary school pupil attitudes toward biology as a school subject and describes the development of our own measurement tool. The teaching experiment, pupils filled out a questionnaire focusing on fading the extent of thein interest in this subject. A questionnaire with 5-point Likert type items was used a research tool. The sample size contained 239 elementary school pupils. Questionnaires were divided into six cetegories: The relevance of biology, Difficulty of biology, Interest in biology, Practical biology, Satisfaction with regard to teacher's attitude and Modern technology in biology lessons. The empirical research focuses in mapping the influence of modern technologies on teaching biology. The research design was based on the case study of the lower secondary school gathered data was processed and by means of open and selective coding data analysis method. The results of the surwey showed that the subject is biology rather popular subject. The research also showed that science teachers use tablets in lessons in two ways. First, they use applications that are applied to repeat and practice the curriculum. Second, tablets allow information retrieval and subsequent work with them. All respondents see the use of tablets in science teaching as an...
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Pupils' school mobility in a large city comprehensive school
Štiková, Štěpánka ; Dvořák, Dominik (advisor) ; Vyhnálek, Jan (referee)
TITLE: Pupils' school mobility in a large city comprehensive school AUTHOR: Bc. Štěpánka Štiková DEPARTMENT: Institute for Research and Development of Education SUPERVISOR: RNDr. Dominik Dvořák, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: Pupil mobility is a serious phenomenon, which has not - at least in the context of Czech education system - enjoyed too much academic attention in terms of dedicated research. Premises of both the master thesis as well as those of pertinent research are following: The phenomenon of pupil mobility is considered in a case of a metropolitan elementary school, analyzing individual embedded cases of pupil mobility which occurred there within a defined monitoring period. A framework of the thesis is set by means of describing demographic and social context in the above school. Each individual pupil mobility case is described, its root cause is analyzed, and its impact on the respective class (student body) is examined by means of interviewing involved stakeholders. The goal of this research is to establish root causes as well as main impact categories of pupil mobility within a metropolitan elementary school context. Gathered data is processed and by means cross-case analysis method. Following movement was recorded on the lower secondary level of the examined school during the examination period: There...
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