Interests and Preferences of Primary School Pupils Regarding the Natural Science Education
通过问卷调查分析斯洛文尼亚小学生在不同学科领域中对自然科学话题的兴趣,发现整体兴趣偏低,但女生高于男生,学生更想学习动物、非科学现象和信息技术,对物理不感兴趣。
The purpose of the research is to analyze and investigate the interest of primary school pupils in natural science topics within primary school subject fields. Examining the existing curricula, it becomes evident that natural science topics are intertwined in different subject fields. Based on the methodology, developed within the rose project, a quantitative research was performed in order to investigate pupils’ wishes and interests regarding learning about natural science topics within different subject fields. The data was acquired by means of a questionnaire. The findings suggest that the level of Slovene pupils’ interest in natural science is low; nevertheless the girls are more interested in it than boys. The pupils would like to learn more about animals, non-scientific phenomena and information technology. However, they are not interested in physics.