ALTERATION OF STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN SCIENCE TOPICS IN LATVIA: 2003 – 2008
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2010, Vol 22, Issue 6
Abstract
A number of researches confrm that students’ interest in science both in Lower and Upper secondary school has a tendency to decrease. Various international comparative studies such as OECD PISA, TIMSS and ROSE reveal comparatively low achievements of students in Latvia. To analyze the causes behind such a situation it is important to carry out longitudinal studies. The analysis of the results obtained during ROSE studies in 2003 - 2008 show that, through the fve year period, the most popular and unpopular science topics basically have remained the same, and there are no signifcant differences in the distribution of ranks. Changes in the mean value are also not statistically signifcant, though absolute values have a tendency to decrease. One of the most unpopular topics is “Atoms and molecules”, which is the ground topic in the chemistry course. The results confrm that the differences between mean values marked by girls and boys have slightly diminished, which testifes that the Latvian cohort of students both in Lower and Upper Secondary school has become more homogenous.
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Janis Gedrovics ,Daina Mozeika, Dagnija Cedere
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