Abstract
The primary goal is to create standardized tool to determine the level of competency in Chemistry (i.e. knowledge, abilities, and skills) among secondary school students, formulated in the form of "expected outcomes" in the Framework Education Programme for Secondary General Education (RVP G, 2007) and then use this tool to determine the success of students in secondary schools in teaching the tests expected outcomes of chemistry in the academic year 2014/2015. The creation of this research tool and determine the success of students after a few years of starting curricular reform allows for use in future years to monitor the development of education in chemistry by general educational programs.
Four didactic tests were used to determine the level of expected outcomes in students of secondary schools, whereas each was created for a different field of chemistry: general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. A total of 15 secondary schools participated in testing; for general chemistry the test sample numbered 396 tests, for inorganic chemistry 396 tests, 243 took tests for organic chemistry, and 103 took tests for biochemistry.
The evaluation of didactic tests indicated that the expected outcomes for general, inorganic, and organic chemistry can be managed by students in secondary schools at about the same level. The level of mastery of expected outcomes in chemistry for students in secondary schools is very low; when setting 33% (MŠMT, 2012) as a passing grade, the required level would not have been met in biochemistry by 18% of the students, in general and organic chemistry by 38% of the students, and in the field of inorganic chemistry by almost half of the total respondents.