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Evaluation of upper secondary students' microscopy skills
Míková, Zuzana ; Janštová, Vanda (advisor) ; Mourek, Jan (referee)
High-school students are less interested in science then before. Despite importance of science for our life and for description of nature around us, students lose motivation for studying it. The approach of teacher is critical for focusing students' attention. Lessons should be based on linking of the education with daily-life and biology provides plenty of possibilities to achieve the goal, especially employing hand-on education, practical examples and exercises. One of the most effective way to show the beauty and a complexity of organism structure is by using microscopes. Many different techniques have been used to prepare education materials - picture, videos or whole movies from micro-word. Nevertheless, a classical optical microscopy is by far the most common training activity during the practical courses. An evaluation of this education aspects is, therefore, critical for further method development. This diploma thesis is focused on establishing of evaluation techniques and subsequent analysis of the current state of students' microscopy skills. First of all, the elementary set of knowledge and the correct microscopy work-flow were established in collaboration with eleven experienced teachers. Based on these results, two types of surveys were designed. One of them was dedicated to teachers...
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CSI effect and its influence on the perception of forensic biology
Míková, Zuzana ; Pinkr, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ehler, Edvard (referee)
1 Abstract This bachelor thesis tries to give an outline on how the TV projects into our everyday life. There are many crime TV series that we can watch. These programmes unfortunately give a distorted view of the forensic and investigative work performed in crime laboratories, as they show a great number of inaccurate or altogether false information. This thesis shows some cases of the 'CSI effect', which emerged after crime series got increasingly popular both in the Czech Republic and abroad. Then it explains how the so often used DNA analysis really works. Finally, it gives some ideas and examples of what teachers can do to prevent the CSI effect from spreading. Key word CSI effect, biological materials, DNA analysis, inquiry based science education
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