APPLICATION OF THE DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT INDEXES IN THE RESEARCH OF SCIENCE DIDACTICS

TitleAPPLICATION OF THE DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT INDEXES IN THE RESEARCH OF SCIENCE DIDACTICS
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsGedrovics, J, Lavonen, J, Raipulis, J
JournalProblems of Education in the 21st Century
Volume22
Start Page33-44
Date PublishedJune/2010
Type of ArticleOriginal article
ISSN1822-7864
Other NumbersICID: 914444
Keywordsgross domestic product, science didactics
Abstract

In the last few decades the analysis of data, obtained from different science and technology education related international surveys, has produced some new viewpoints such as the diversity of cultures, the trends of globalization, different theories such as postmodernism, self-determination. Within those researches different reference factors have been investigated to obtain results, possible to explain different phenomena observed in the society.
In our research some indexes such as Human Development Index (HDI) and Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) normally used in sociological research have been used with the aim to find correlations with the international ROSE (The Relevance of Science Education) project data. The items in the ROSE questionnaire are measuring students’ general interest in science and technology and their interest in different content and contexts of science and technology as well as students’ science and technology related experiences. Based on our analysis, there were relatively high correlation between the mean values of different national ROSE variables and responding HDI index.

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