Verification of a Research Tool Focused on Investigating of Pupils’ Opinion of the Importance of Biology Skills

Autor	Milan Kubiatko, Monika Vašíčková
Organisation	Masarykova Univerzita
Year	2013
Research type	study
Annotation	The contribution deals with a pilot study used for verification of a research tool related to pupils opinions of the importance of biology skills. The research tool was a questionnaire with 61 Likert type items divided into 4 parts. There was also investigated the influence of gender, grade and class on the pupils opinion. The sample consisted of 91 pupils from a primary school. The Cronbachs alpha was used for the determination of reliability, and the Analysis of Variance was used for the finding of the influence of independent variables. The conclusion part of the contribution contains information about a future research.
Keywords	biology skills, pilot study, scaling questionnaire, pupils opinion
Research type	quantitative
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Obor	AM Pedagogy, education
Note	published by e-Pedagogium, 2013, 1213-7758.
Email	kubiatko@ped.muni.cz
Availability	available by the researcher
Research location	KUBIATKO, Milan a Monika VAŠÍČKOVÁ. Ověřování výzkumného nástroje zaměřeného na zkoumání názorů žáků na důležitost biologických dovedností. e-Pedagogium, 2013, roč. 13, č. 1, s. 69-81. ISSN 1213-7758.
Organisation	Masarykova Univerzita
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