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PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT IN SCIENCE NATIONAL LEVEL DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
2018
National Centre of Education of the Republic of Latvia in 2016 lunched national project of the renewal of the curriculum for education funded by the European Social Fund. One of the key priorities of successful implementation of the new education curriculum is transforming national level assessment system.Assessment system measuring student performance must meet different requirements from the traditional measurement instrument assessing content knowledge.Analysing 2017 national level science assessment diagnostic tests of 15-16 years old students, it is impossible to discriminate student different level of performance. Student, demonstrating singly stored pieces of knowledge, integrating p…
Obstacles to the problematization of time in an interdisciplinary approach: the explanation of some natural phenomena by Tunisian students and teache…
2009
This research focuses on learning and teaching of biology and geology by students and teachers. The use of geological time in the explanation of some natural phenomena by learners is difficult. We use an epistemological reflection on the teaching and study of this concept in an interdisciplinary approach by using elements of history and philosophy of science. An accurate diagnosis of the difficulties of learners through many research methods let us understand their problems and suggest strategies to facilitate the acquisition not only the concept of time but also other concepts in science. The main objectif of this research is to identify epistemological obstacles to problematization of tim…