Open AccessLärares mål med laborativt arbete: Utveckla förståelse och intresse
Author(s) -
Per Högström,
Christina Ottander,
Sylvia Benckert
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nordina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1894-1257
pISSN - 1504-4556
DOI - 10.5617/nordina.414
Subject(s) - psychology , theme (computing) , mathematics education , pedagogy , school teachers , computer science , operating system
The purpose of this study was to analyse secondary school teachers’ goals for laboratory work. What general goals do teachers have for labwork and what goals appear when teachers describe real labwork used in their own teaching? What goals are expressed in the written laboratory instructions? Eleven science teachers in secondary school participated in individual semi-structured interviews. The teachers’ laboratory instruction sheets were analysed with respect to intended learning outcome. The analysis of teachers’ general goals showed ve themes and that cognitive aspects were the most prominent. Furthermore, when teachers talked about specic labwork used in their own teaching affective aspects were more important and an additional theme appeared. It was also shown that laboratory instructions supported teachers’ goals to develop students understanding of concepts and phenomena. However, goals concerning to think and reect upon labwork were not supported by the laboratory instructions.