Publikace na Pedagogická fakulta |
2022
Abstrakt
Inquiry skills are an essential part of scientific literacy. The research aimed to map students' ability to correctly formulate a research question and an answer to a research question.
Four inquiry-based biology tasks were used, which were solved by 58 Czech lower-secondary school students (ISCED 2) in seventh grade. Based on qualitative-quantitative analysis, it was found that more than half of the students was not able to formulate the research question correctly and more than one third of the students was unable to formulate the correct answer to the research question.
Insufficient inquiry skills can limit student's science understanding. Development of targeted intervention therefore seems desirable.