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The comparison of inquiry and cookbook laboratory tasks in Genetics lesson at grammar school
OBRDLÍKOVÁ, Zuzana
Inquiry-based education is one of the activating teaching methods, where the attention is transferred to students and student's activity is supported. Teaching by iquiry leads to the development of a positive attitude towards the subject, which is desirable due to the decline of interest in science subejcts. This teaching method contributes to the development of research skills, but also to independence, cooperation, responsibility and work planning. This diploma thesis deals with the comparison of the effectiveness of inquiry and traditional teaching in the teaching of genetics. A total of 46 pupils from two grammar schools in Vysočina region took part in the research. Pupils were divided into 2 groups - an experimental group, working on worksheets with tasks including iquiry elements, and a control group, working with worksheets containing traditionally designed tasks without inquiry elements. Data for research were obtained by using pre-test and post-test. On its basis the improvement in the post-test of the experimental group was compared to the improvement of the control group of pupils from individual grammar schools. Hierarchical ANOVA test was used for statistic evaluation. The results of the research do not show a significant influence of inquiry-based teaching on the acquisition of new information. On the other hand, a statistically significant effect was confirmed in the teaching activity, elaboration of worksheets.
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Animal signs as a topic for inquiry in primary science education
ŠINDELÍŘOVÁ, Michaela
This diploma thesis deals with research-oriented teaching in science education. It tries to show the pupils that the animals have their own traces that they leave behind, and that thanks to these traces it is possible to find out the sequence of events that happened here. The aim of this work is to clearly define the traces of animals that can be found in nature and then put into practice, where students try to find these traces themselves and further work with them in the research. The work shows how students are able to solve problems in different ways and how they think about tasks. Finally, the work should show how research on animal signs can be incorporated into regular school teaching and thus enrich pupils with further knowledge. The diploma thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part defines the concept of research-oriented teaching and discusses the role of students and teachers. Furthermore, thesis deals with animal signs, as such and it is also supplemented by interdisciplinary relationships. The practical part contains worksheets, which were created for the purpose of research with pupils in primary school and further evaluation of pupils, how they did in research. The diploma thesis also contains other worksheets that were not performed due to lack of time. The diploma thesis was drawn up as part of a project GAJU 123/2019 / S.
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Inquiry-based Science Education in Human Biology
DEDEK, Michal
The aim of this work was to create three authorial activating practical exercises on the topic of the human circulatory and respiratory system. Teaching with elements of research-oriented teaching (BOV) in the experimental group and exposure-type teaching (common teaching) of the same topics in the control group was statistically evaluated on the basis of the results of the pretest and two posttests. The toss of the coin determined that class 8.A (19 pupils) would be the experimental group, class 8.B (18 pupils) the control group. The verification of the created documents took place at Loir secondary school level in April 2019, in the South Bohemian Region (the city with a population ranging from 20,000 to 40,000). According to pretests, the achieved results show worse average results in the class, which was randomly selected for teaching with BOV elements, the differences of average pretest results were evaluated by the student's t-test as statistically significant (t = 4.05, sv = 35, p = 0.00 ). Differences in the average results of the first posttest (entered one week after class) were evaluated as statistically insignificant by t-test (t = 1.28, sv = 35, p = 0.21), as well as in the evaluation of differences in averages in the second posttest (entered one month after teaching; t = 0.29; sv = 35; p = 0.77). The results suggest that the teaching of BOV motivated the class selected for teaching with elements of BOV in teaching and helped it to better learning the theme. The summary of the questionnaire, which was aimed at the pupils' comments on the actual teaching of topics, showed that the pupils of the experimental group had a better learning the theme, as they could also deal with the issue in practice. Statistically significant in both posttests for the topic respiratory system (p = 0.01; respectively 0.03), not for the topic vascular system (p = 0.10; resp. 0.19). This diploma thesis is created within the project GAJU 123/2019 / S.
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Development of Students' Skills in Planning Procedure of Exploration in Science Inquiry
Příhodová, Karolína ; Vojíř, Karel (advisor) ; Brůnová, Linda (referee)
Research-oriented teaching is a constructivist form of teaching, where the student is not only passed on the material passively, but the student is actively involved in solving the problem. In the role of researcher, he makes hypotheses, conducts experiments and draws conclusions. The main goal of this work was to find out the development of students' skills to plan the research process in science research at the 2nd Dobříš Primary School. The work was divided into three parts. In the introduction to the theoretical part, the aim was to introduce readers to research- oriented teaching in biology lessons at the second level and the characteristics of concepts. The practical part was focused mainly on observing and evaluating the development of the ability to plan progress on already created topics for BOV. It was found that more than half of the students are able to formulate the procedure correctly for a given task and the rest are able to create a partial procedure or none at all. It would therefore be appropriate to focus on deepening knowledge and practical skills in research- oriented teaching. KEYWORDS Research-oriented teaching, research, process development, biology
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