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This paper explores the idea of informal science education in scientific field laboratory (The Science Field Centre). The experimental group of pupils (N = 153) was experienced with approximately 5-day lasting field trips and experiments in the Field Centre in Slovakia. After finishing the course, two different research methods were used to discover their interest and ideas toward science. Pupils from the experimental group showed significant differences from those that did not experience education in the Field Centre (control group, N = 365). In comparison to the control group, pupils of the experimental group highly preferred book titles that were related to their program in the Field Centre. There were differences between the drawings of ideal school environment from both pupils groups. In the drawings of the experimental group, we found significantly more items connected with the educational environment of the Field Centre (e.g. laboratory equipment, live animals). We suppose field science education would be one of the most effective ways to increase interest of pupils to study science and to invaluable intrinsic motivation at the expense extrinsic motivation. 相似文献
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Stamatis Agiovlasitis Joonkoo Yun Michael J. Pavol Jeffrey A. McCubbin So-Yeun Kim 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(4):487-494
This study examined whether the walk-to-run transition speed (W-RTS) and the run-to-walk transition speed (R-WTS) were different or more variable between participants with and without intellectual disability (ID). Nine adults with ID and 10 adults without ID completed in a series of walk-to-run and run-to-walk trials on a treadmill. W-RTS and R-WTS were identified using force-sensitive resistors. When transition speeds were expressed as Froude numbers to account for differences in leg length, W-RTS was slower, and intraindividual variability of W-RTS and R-WTS was greater in participants with ID. These findings support the idea that the unique constraints of individuals with ID result in altered attractor dynamics for walking and a weaker coupling between locomotor speed and order parameters governing gait transitions. 相似文献
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Why Do Cocks Crow? Children’s Concepts About Birds 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Research into children’s ideas showed that children’s interpretations of natural phenomena often differ from those of scientists.
The aim of our study was to identify children’s ideas of various age classes (7/8–14/15) about birds. A questionnaire with
31 multiple choice and open ended questions and eight photographs were administered to 495 children from 10 elementary schools
in Slovakia. Children’s ideas were examined in six dimensions (bird classification, food, senses, communication, migration
and breeding including parental care). We found several misconceptions, some of them with both anthropomorphical and teleological
reasoning of the children about birds within each dimension. In general, misconceptions were more frequently found in younger
children, but several misconceptions were similarly distributed across all age classes. 相似文献
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Cristianne Lane Mary Jo Surges Prokop Blanche Podhajski Jane Nathan 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2014,34(1):67-80
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a professional learning program on the emergent literacy skills of preschool children. Building Blocks for Literacy® is a program consisting of training supported by mentoring designed to teach early childcare providers how to promote the development of early literacy skills. A previous investigation found positive effects of the program on the pre-literacy skills of children in Vermont. The current study extended their work by replicating the training for Head Start teachers (n?=?27) in another state. Teachers were divided into three groups. One group received the training and live mentoring; a second group received training and distance mentoring; and a third group of teachers served as controls. The results indicate that children (n?=?97) served by teachers who received the training (n?=?18) made higher gains on a measure of early literacy skills than those children (n?=?36) served by control teachers. The gains made by children in the treatment groups were consistent for teachers who received either live or distance mentoring. Implications for practice are discussed. 相似文献
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Traditionally, the education in electrical engineering is roughly divided into two areas, viz. electronics and telecommunication on the one hand and electrical energy on the other. Though the borders between these two areas have become vague, this division is still clearly observable, in particular when it comes down to the student's perception of these areas as potential fields of study. Electrical energy has an old-fashioned image. Furthermore, over the last decades there has been a shift from laboratory experiments to computer simulations. In this paper a new approach is introduced, which is aimed at raising first-year students' awareness of the potential attractiveness of electrical energy as an area of study. The approach is project-oriented and based on teamwork. Projects are carried out that are aimed at the design, implementation and verification of small total energy systems. The problems involved are related to energy production, system design, energy storage and consumption. 相似文献
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Pavol Prokop Andrea Tolarovičová Anne M. Camerik Viera Peterková 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(12):1665-1688
Spiders are traditionally considered to be among the least popular of animals. Current evidence suggests that a negative attitude towards spiders could be influenced by both cultural and evolutionary pressures. Some researchers suggest that science education activities could positively influence students’ perceptions of spiders. Their evidence is, however, ambivalent. Using a five‐point score Likert‐type questionnaire in which the items were developed in a similar way to four of Kellert’s categories of attitude (scientistic, negativistic, naturalistic, and ecologistic) towards invertebrates, we compared the level of knowledge of and attitudes towards spiders of high school students from two countries, Slovakia (n = 354) and South Africa (n = 382). The students represented different cultures and followed dissimilar science education curricula. Only among the Slovakian students there was a statistically significant but low correlation between knowledge and attitude (r = 0.30). The South African students scored higher in the categories of scientistic, naturalistic, and ecologistic attitudes. Comparison of attitude towards spiders of indigenous Africans from coeducational Catholic schools revealed that South African students have greater fear of spiders than Slovakian students, supporting the biological preparedness hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts a greater fear of spiders in South Africa than in Europe since several South African spiders possess venoms that are dangerous to humans. The results of this study are discussed from science education, cultural, and evolutionary perspectives. 相似文献
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Plants are integral parts of ecosystems which determine life on Earth. People’s attitudes toward them are however, largely
overlooked. Here we present initial psychometric assessment of self-constructed Plant Attitude Scale (PAS) that was administered
to a sample of 310 Slovakian students living in rural areas aged 10–15 years. The final version of PAS consists from 29 Likert-scale
items that were loaded to four distinct dimensions (Interest, Importance, Urban trees and Utilization). Mean scores revealed
that Slovakian students lack positive attitudes toward plants and that gender had no effect on their mean attitude scores.
Living in a family with a garden was associated with a more positive attitude toward plants. Further correlative research
on diverse samples containing urban children and experimental research examining the impact of gardening in schools on student
attitudes toward plants is required. 相似文献
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A. Harry Passow Gilbert de Landsheere A. D. C. Peterson Harold J. Noah Henry Saltzman W. D. Halls Gordon Bishop Richard F. Goodings Helmut von Bracken Franz Hilker Daniel J. Casey Donald E. Super Klaus Schleicher Neville Postlethwaite B. F. Nel Peter Martin Roeder Wolfgang Brezinka Hans Friedrich Eric Ashby Franklin Parker Ernst Prokop Clare Burstall Kenneth Austwick 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1968,14(3):328-375
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Kristina Zoldosova Pavol Prokop 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2006,4(4):669-688
Pupils' motivation and interest are identified as important influences on learning. Motivational orientation is a construct that links motivation and epistemology. This study attempted to explore motivational orientation as it relates to science education and two different instructional approaches. A published instrument standardized with a population from the United Kingdom that purports to identify students' preferred motivation orientations as social, consciousness, effort, or curiosity was applied to two instructional contexts (traditional school program and field centre program) in primary schools in Slovakia. Results indicated that a very high percentage of the pupils could not be classified into one of the four categories, that the traditional classroom sample differed significantly from the United Kingdom population, and that the preferred motivational orientations expressed by the pupils in the field centre sample did not differ significantly from those expressed by the pupils in the traditional classroom sample. 相似文献