The contribution concerns the development of the subject of chemistry education with respect to its institutionalization during scientific preparation and doctoral studies. It characterizes these forms of studies, their importance and the results obtained.
The first part concerns the scientific preparation in the subject: The theory of chemistry teaching, in the second part, we'll deal with the meaning of doctoral studies for the development of the subject of chemistry education and the characteristics of quantitative and qualitative measures of the doctoral studies programme: Education in Chemistry and Didactics of Chemistry in the Czech Republic. In the contribution, we show the main parameters and demands of this study, the aim of doctoral dissertations, and their contributions for the further development of the subject.