Conveners
Innovative curricula: 013,028,074,088,089
- Chairman: Jozef Hanč
Description
CUR: Innovative curricula for physics teaching, learning and assessment
Physics textbooks are viewed as primary resources for the implementation of curricula throughout the world. Scientific literacy (SL) skills are a core goal of physics education in many curriculum documents, in which four aspects of SL are recognized: Science as (1) a body of knowledge, (2) a way of investigation, (3) a way of thinking, and (4) the interaction amongst science, technology,and...
Objective evaluation of learning outcomes is a major part of teaching. Choosing an appropriate test analysis method is crucial. Item response curve analysis, as part of item response theory, and the Rasch method effectively analyse test scores and indicate the possibilities of improving the selection of questions or the offered answers, in terms of identifying students’ preconceptions. In the...
The central topic of the paper is the specialized physics test in which the Czech Republic participated in TIMSS Advanced 1995. We briefly recall the methodology of the TIMSS study and the test results of Czech students in the final-year of upper-secondary school. We present the repetition of the TIMSS Advanced physics test in the Czech Republic in 2023. We discuss future outputs of the...
