Odnos srednješolcev v ljubljanski regiji do biologije in njihovo znanje o evoluciji človeka : magistrsko delo

Potrebuješ, Erika (author), Strgar, Jelka (mentor)

Slovenski učenci se z evolucijo človeka prvič srečajo pri pouku biologije v devetem razredu osnovne šole. Tisti, ki šolanje nadaljujejo na srednjih strokovnih ali poklicnih šolah, se z njo najverjetneje ne srečajo več. V preteklosti je bilo na temo evolucije človeka izvedenih veliko raziskav, ki ugotavljajo dobro znanje učencev, vendar z značilnimi pomanjkljivostmi. V nasprotju s tem je odnos do biologije manj raziskan. Večinoma so raziskave vključevale posamezno področje biologije in ne biologije na splošno. Te raziskave so prišle do ugotovitev, da imajo naši učenci pozitiven odnos do biologije. Cilj tega magistrskega dela je bil ugotoviti, kakšno znanje o evoluciji človeka imajo dijaki srednjih šol v ljubljanski regiji, kakšen je njihov odnos do biologije, in kako sta ti dve komponenti med seboj povezani. Ugotavljali smo, kako se znanje in odnos dijakov spreminjata glede na spol, šolo in letnik. V raziskavo smo vključili 350 dijakov. Večina je bila gimnazijcev, manjšina pa so bili dijaki srednje poklicne oziroma strokovne šole. Uporabili smo anonimen test znanja in anketni vprašalnik. Obdelava podatkov je pokazala, da dijaki nimajo zadovoljivega znanja o evoluciji človeka. Gimnazijci so pokazali boljše znanje v primerjavi z dijaki srednje strokovne in poklicne šole. Fantje so bili v znanju o evoluciji človeka boljši v primerjavi z dekleti. Med dijaki različnih letnikov bistvenih razlik v znanju o evoluciji človeka ni. V odnosu do biologije je mnenje srednješolcev povprečno. Med dijaki različnih šol bistvenih razlik ni. Pojavljajo pa se razlike v odnosu do biologije glede na spol in letnik, ki ga dijaki obiskujejo. Najbolj pozitiven odnos imajo dijaki drugega letnika, sledijo dijaki prvega letnika in nato tretjega letnika. S polovico trditev so se bolj strinjala dekleta, z drugo polovico pa fantje. Raziskava je pokazala pozitivno korelacijo med odnosom do biologije, oceno notranje motivacije in oceno samoučinkovitosti na eni strani ter znanjem o evoluciji človeka na drugi strani. Na koncu smo izdelali pripravo na učno uro o evoluciji človeka.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: osnovnošolci, evolucija človeka
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publisher: [E. Potrebuješ]
• Year: 2018
• Number of pages: X, 75 str., 20 str. pril.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-102020
• UDC: 57:373.5(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12021577
• Publication date in RUL: 31.08.2018

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Attitude of secondary school students in ljubljana region toward biology and their knowledge about human evolution

Abstract

Pupils in Slovenia get to know human evolution for the first time in biology classes in the 9th grade of primary school. Those who continue their education at secondary vocational or professional schools will probably never deal with it again. In the past, a lot of research has been carried out on the subject of a human evolution, which has identified the good knowledge of pupils, but with typical problems. In contrast, the attitude towards biology is less researched. Most of the research has involved fields of biology and not biology in general and has come to conclusion that our pupils have a positive attitude towards biology. The aim of this master's thesis was to find out what is the knowledge of secondary school pupils in the Ljubljana region, what their attitude to biology is and how these two components are connected to each other. Our aim was to test how the knowledge and attitude of pupils is changing according to gender, school and grade. We included 350 pupils in our research. Most of them were from grammar schools and a smaller share was from secondary vocational/professional schools. We used an anonymous knowledge test and a questionnaire. Data analysis has shown that pupils do not have sufficient knowledge about human evolution. Grammar school pupils possessed better knowledge compared to pupils from secondary vocational/professional school. Boys showed better knowledge compared to girls. There are no fundamental differences between pupils of different grades. In attitude towards biology, secondary school pupils have an average opinion. There are no fundamental differences knowledge about human evolution between students of different schools. However, there are differences in attitude towards biology between genders and students of different grades. The second-grade pupils have the most positive attitude, followed by the pupils of the first and then the third grade. Girls agreed with a half of the claims of the questionnaire and boys with another half. The research showed a positive correlation between the attitude towards biology, internal motivation and the assessment of self-efficacy on the one hand and the knowledge about human evolution on the other hand. On the basis of these findings, we prepared the preparation for the lesson about human evolution.

• Keywords: secondary school, biology, srednja šola, biologija