Elementary Science Education - OEBEE1703Z

• Title: Elementary Science Education
• Form of teaching: seminar
• Guaranteed by: Katedra chemie a didaktiky chemie (41-KCHDCH)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2022
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 6
• Hours per week, examination: 0/1, Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 1 [days]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / 15 (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 3 / 2
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Martin Rusek, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Martin Rusek, Ph.D.

Annotation

This course focuses on goals and content of elementary science education with scientific literacy being the main focus. Also, the results of international tests (PISA and TIMSS) are analysed with respect to elementary science education. The last part of the course is dedicated to elementary science learning conception at elementary level in course participants' country

Last update: Rusek Martin, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (07.02.2020)

Course completion requirements

The schedule of the course is irregular. Students take the introductory three lessons together with the Elementary Science Experiments course students. Later, the groups part and the Elementary Science Education group focuses solely on elementary science education tasks.

For passing the course, 80% attendance is required. The final examination is conducted by means of he students' presentation of their learning tasks together with a defence of the tasks' purpose in education. Students also submit a portfolio of five tasks suitable for elementary science education with the objectives, addressed cognitive processes as well as evaluation of students' learning progress described.

Last update: Rusek Martin, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (23.02.2026)

Literature

Eshach, H., & Fried, M. N. (2005). Should science be taught in early childhood? Journal of Science Education and Technology, 14(3), 315-336.

Martin, M. O., Mullis, I. V., Foy, P., & Stanco, G. M. (2012). TIMSS 2011 International Results in Science. International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Herengracht 487, Amsterdam, 1017 BT, The Netherlands.

OECD. (2012). PISA 2012 Assessment and Analytical Framework. Paříž: OECD Publishing.

OECD. (2016). Pisa 2015 Results (Volume 1): Excellence and Equity in Education. Retrieved from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264266490-en

Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (12.08.2019)

Syllabus

Goals of science education

Scientific literacy

PISA

TIMSS

Science problem tasks

Education experiment and its role in science education

Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (12.08.2019)

Learning resources

The assignments are given as well as submitted via the course's MS Teams team.

Last update: Rusek Martin, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (13.09.2022)