Partíková Lenka

Summary

INSTRUCTIONAL Package at Elementary school – electrOtechnical kits.

In my dissertation project I am dealing with instructional package at Elementary school. I am focusing on electrotechnical kits. Usage of instructional package is very important for its objective teaching. It is useful when teaching abstract subjects such as „ Electro-technology around us“ which is taught at Elementary schools (in 8th and 9th grade) in subject Practical skills.

Electrotechnical kit cannot be replaced in the process of teaching. Pupils are getting better in psycho-motorical skills while using a kit. I think that without electrotechnical kit teaching would be impossible.

I am dealing with using of electrotechnical kits at Elementary school (6-9 grade). I will use the questionnaire in electronic form to get information about the current state. I will send the questionnaire to schools in the Czech republic. I am trying to find out the way they use instructional package, teaching of topics and placing electro-technology into the teaching process.

The other part of my dissertation project is focused on the usage of electrotechnical kits, the condition of kits, the way pupils are working with them and methods, which the teachers are using in the work with electrotechnical kits.

I will choose some schools according to the information I will get from the questionnaire. I will do my research with pupils of the 9th grade at those schools. Pupils will get practical exercises, which will be focused on their skills while working with electrotechnical kits. Research of skills is very demanding and not very extended.

I am interested in the international study called TIMSS which also took place in the Czech republic. The part of the study is practical exercises, which investigate complex skills of pupils based on their experimental activities. I got inspiration from this study and I have prepared my own practical exercises.

I would like to get the information of pupils skills:

To solve the problem and to plan and design a chip.

To decide about necessary and unnecessary modules.

To change a chip with the changing of its function.

To find some examples from practical usage.

To make conclusion on the base of gain information.

Literature:

ROBITAILLE, D. F., GARDEN, R. A. Research Questions & Study Design. TIMSS Monograph No 3. Vancouver: Educational Press, 1996. 149 s.

OECD. Knowledge and Skills for Life: First Results from PISA 2000. Paris: OECD, 2001. 123 s.