@article {996,
	title = {STEM EDUCATION IN ECO-FARMING SUPPORTED BY ICT AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2021},
	month = {April/2021},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {277-288},
	abstract = {The presented research focused on developing and testing an innovative interdisciplinary STEM didactic model. The developed didactic model was introduced in the field of eco-farming. To the participants, it offers the possibility for non-formal training, which can take place anywhere and anytime. Participants require some knowledge of STEM subjects (especially chemistry and biology) as well as knowledge of ecology, technology, and engineering, in order to provide answers and solutions to environmental challenges while using knowledge of mathematics (especially combinatorics and statistics) to search for optimal solutions (in our case, a lean business plan). The model was tested in non-formal education settings, based on an interdisciplinary approach and modern technologies, such as monitoring the effectiveness of training using electroencephalography (EEG) and mobile applications. In the presented didactic model, special emphasis was placed on an interdisciplinary STEM approach to environmental protection, ecology, connatural forms of production and sustainable development.
The presented research confirms the hypotheses that non-formal education is becoming an increasingly important form of education and training, and that the use of the interdisciplinary didactic model, contemporary technologies, and mobile applications, increases the time and intensity of concentration in learning and thus improves learning effectiveness. 
},
	keywords = {eco-farming, electroencephalography, environment protection, mobile learning, non-formal education, sustainable development},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/21.20.277},
	url = {https://oaji.net/articles/2022/987-1667071946.pdf},
	author = {Tine Pajk and Van Isacker, K. and Boris Aber{\v s}ek and Andrej Flogie}
}
@article {839,
	title = {METACOGNITIVE MODEL FOR DEVELOPING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING FUNCTIONAL LITERACY},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {19},
	year = {2020},
	month = {April/2020},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {220-233},
	abstract = {Science, technology and engineering functional literacy should be developed purposely in the school system {\textendash} like any other competence, it does not develop spontaneously. For this purpose, a didactic model, the Metacognitive Model for Developing Science, Technology and Engineering Literacy (McM_T\&E), was developed. Apart from acquiring knowledge and skills from the field of technology and engineering, the McM_T\&E is equally focused on developing functional literacy in the field of technology and engineering, as well as in the field of science, through the development of students{\textquoteright} metacognitive knowledge about reading strategies for reading STE explicatory texts and for reading manufacturing instructions. The McM_T\&E was implemented in a Technology and Technique{\textquoteright} (T\&T) class, grade six, in Slovenia. Results show that focusing on science, technology and engineering literacy in Technology and Engineering classes by using the McM_T\&E model increases the students{\textquoteright} science, technology, and engineering functional literacy, which is a fundamental competence in the 21st century. },
	keywords = {engineering functional literacy, functional literacy, metacognitive didactic model, science functional literacy, technology},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/20.19.220},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2020/987-1586941392.pdf},
	author = {Zvonka Cencelj and Boris Aber{\v s}ek and Andrej Flogie and Kordigel Aber{\v s}ek, M.}
}
@article {769,
	title = {MONODISCIPLINARITY IN SCIENCE VERSUS TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN STEM EDUCATION},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {18},
	year = {2019},
	month = {June/2019},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {435-449},
	abstract = {Contemporary society of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) increasingly requires the education system (i.e., the school) to train competent, creative and proactive professionals who will be able to solve real life problems. If society is to achieve this, some key paradigm changes must occur in education. The school must first prepare a competence-based curriculum and, secondly, school practice should move away from subject-based teaching, towards an interdisciplinary STEM teaching approach. Obviously, to support this, modern learning environments and ICT solutions and tools have to be used. However, since the interdisciplinary STEM approach has already been implemented and integrated, it can be said that a new, integrated science discipline (STEM) has already emerged, together with a transdisciplinary approach to STEM learning and teaching.
In the present research, a concrete case of designing, developing and producing a solar chimney was used to demonstrate an integrated approach to learning and teaching, while emphasizing especially the advantages of such an interdisciplinary (transdisciplinary) approach to teaching Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic content. The empirical research shows that such an approach produces incomparably better results, especially on higher cognitive levels, in comparison to traditional approaches to learning and teaching. 
},
	keywords = {industry 4.0, interdisciplinarity, solar chimney, STEM, transdisciplinarity},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/19.18.435 },
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2019/987-1559372546.pdf},
	author = {Mitja Slavinec and Boris Aber{\v s}ek and Dino Ga{\v c}evi{\'c} and Andrej Flogie}
}
@article {740,
	title = {ROLE AND MEANING OF FUNCTIONAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENGINEERING LITERACY IN PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {18},
	year = {2019},
	month = {February/2019},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {132-146},
	abstract = {Literacy, in particular functional literacy in various fields and especially in the field of STEM, is becoming an increasing problem in modern-day society. The question arises, can the school system develop the kind of functional literacy in students, which allows them to fulfil, in real life, their personal and professional needs related to the competence of reading and creating written texts from the field of science, technology and engineering? 
The present research aimed to explore how students in today{\textquoteright}s schools are trained in functional literacy, especially in the fields of technology and engineering, and what kind of literacies in the field of STEM they are able to (or should be able to) master competently. The present research showed that students achieve relatively poor results in the area of functional literacy, both regarding their science literacy, and especially their technology and engineering literacy, which is a result of a lack of competence on behalf of mother-tongue teachers to develop this kind of functional literacy. Functional literacy should be developed by teachers of individual areas of STEM subjects.
},
	keywords = {engineering functional literacy, functional literacy, key competence, Problem Solving, science functional literacy},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/19.18.132},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2019/987-1550083179.pdf},
	author = {Zvonka Cencelj and Kordigel Aber{\v s}ek, M. and Boris Aber{\v s}ek and Andrej Flogie}
}
@article {657,
	title = {THE PSYCHOSOCIAL AND COGNITIVE INFLUENCE OF ICT ON COMPETENCES OF STEM STUDENTS},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {17},
	year = {2018},
	month = {April/2018},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {267-276},
	abstract = {Information and communications technology (ICT) shapes life and work in every educational system. Where to place ICT in the pedagogical process and how it affects students{\textquoteright} psychosocial and cognitive abilities are questions that do not have one definitive answer. The research addresses the intense introduction of ICT that accords with educational trends and the requirements of today{\textquoteright}s society, but sometimes neglects social competences and any potential psychosocial effects. A need for new and effective methods in upbringing and education to offer everyone, equal opportunities become more and more important in the {\textquotedblleft}world of the 21st century{\textquotedblright}. The research also proved that innovative didactic methods of teaching (4.0) using a transdisciplinary model and supported by state-of-the-art information and communications technology as well as cooperative learning, have a positive psychosocial effect on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students. Students who experience innovative didactic teaching supported by ICT reach higher taxonomic, cognitive and social standards of competence and are thus better prepared for the challenges of future society. },
	keywords = {cognitive competences, education system, ICT, psychosocial influence, social competences},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/18.17.267},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/987-1523527323.pdf},
	author = {Andrej Flogie and Andreja Barle Lakota and Boris Aber{\v s}ek}
}
@article {641,
	title = {WRITING VERSUS TYPING DURING SCIENCE TEACHING: CASE STUDY IN SLOVENIA},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {17},
	year = {2018},
	month = {February/2018},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {84-96},
	abstract = {In a case study conducted in a biology class in Slovenia, six grade students participated in a biology project Writing Versus Typing in a Biology Class. The final task in this project was to write a chapter for a biology textbook with the title Urtica dioica. The task was performed twice: firstly, the text was written by the hand and secondly it was typed on the computer keyboard. Handwritten and keyboard typed scientific texts, textbook chapters, were compared with the special focus on the lexical, syntactic, and semantic level of the text. The purpose of this research was to find out the effect of replacing handwriting with typing in the process of teaching/learning science subjects, where the understanding of texts is of crucial importance. A closer look at the students{\textquoteright} text products in the typing modality reveals that students, while typing, seem to be cognitively overloaded. One of the consequences of this is a lower level of cognitive achievement in their typed text: students show less knowledge, less terminological accuracy, and, above all, a lesser understanding of the interconnection between the items of information provided. },
	keywords = {biology science class; embodied cognition, handwriting, keyboard writing},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/18.17.84},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/987-1519060073.pdf},
	author = {Kordigel Aber{\v s}ek, M. and Boris Aber{\v s}ek and Andrej Flogie}
}
@article {628,
	title = {INNOVATIVE TEACHING/LEARNING METHODS TO IMPROVE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING CLASSROOM CLIMATE AND INTEREST},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2017},
	month = {December/2017},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {1009-1019},
	abstract = {For successful work in the classroom, it is important to create a positive climate and to involve students actively in the process of learning. The presented research focused on how the students perceived the classroom climate, and on their interest in the contents of the subject Science, Engineering and Technology (STE). 92 primary school sixth- and seventh-grade students had been included in research. Two groups are established, one from a class using mainly frontal teaching methods (control group) and another, expert group from a class using an innovative teaching/learning methods mainly as problem and research-based learning and participatory learning supported with information communication technology.
To measure the classroom climate and the students{\textquoteright} interest, a survey with 54 statements was used. The results confirmed changes in the perception of classroom climate and in the popularity of contents taught in STE, in relation to the teaching methods used. It was established that innovative teaching/learning methods increase the students' interest, and help to improve classroom climate. 
},
	keywords = {classroom climate, innovative didactical methods, lower secondary education, students interest},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/17.16.1009},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/987-1513971461.pdf},
	author = {Majda Fiksl and Andrej Flogie and Boris Aber{\v s}ek}
}
@article {446,
	title = {NEW NATURAL SCIENCE LITERACIES OF ONLINE RESEARCH AND COMPREHENSION: TO TEACH OR NOT TO TEACH},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {14},
	year = {2015},
	month = {August/2015},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {460{\textendash}473},
	abstract = {This study describes a research focused on science teachers{\textquoteright} evaluation of natural science literacy of research and comprehension competence in their students. Natural science literacy of research and comprehension competence is defined as an essential part of science literacy {\textendash} as a competence to find, evaluate and use science knowledge stored on the Internet (as a part of extended memory) to solve a problem in a science class and to construct students{\textquoteright} own science knowledge. Online science literacy was defined in terms of the following aspects: basic skills (which include computer basics, web searching basics, and general navigation basics), locating information, finding a suitable website, locating the information on the website, critically evaluating the information according to its reliability and according to its relevance for the science class assessment. The data were collected through a 53-item Likert {\textendash} scale questionnaire. The items were adopted from the TICA questionnaire for assessing students{\textquoteright} general online reading competence. Science teachers from 5 different levels of pre-university education assessed their students{\textquoteright} online science literacy in order to evaluate their students{\textquoteright} competence to use the Internet as a storage and as a source of knowledge for teaching/learning process in the science class, to re-evaluate their online teaching practice and the need for implementation of natural science literacy of research and comprehension competence in their science curriculum. },
	keywords = {ICT, Internet in natural science education, natural science literacy},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/15.14.460},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2016/987-1479498050.pdf},
	author = {Kordigel Aber{\v s}ek, M. and Kosta Dolenc and Andrej Flogie and Ana Koritnik}
}
@article {471,
	title = {TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {14},
	year = {2015},
	month = {December/2015},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {779{\textendash}790},
	abstract = {At the end of 20th century and especially in this century the education field is undergoing a significant change not only as a result of technological innovations but also pedagogical innovations on the bases of artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive science and neuroscience. What interested us was the attitude of students and teachers towards these changes. In the research the participating students were arranged in two groups, the control group (CG), where conventional lessons were carried out and the experimental group (EG), in which teachers used a transdisciplinary cognitive neuroeducation model. The performance data for the both groups was acquired via questionnaire adopted from TIMSS research. The teachers{\textquoteright} attitude towards these changes was mostly monitored via qualitative research.
As is apparent from the results, a positive shift can be seen in the students{\textquoteright} attitude towards school. And this positive attitude towards school can create in students the suitable motivation, which is the first and most important step towards quality knowledge. A positive shift was also made in the minds of the teachers.},
	keywords = {Artificial Intelligence, cognitive neuroeducation model, cognitive science, multidisciplinarity, neuroscience, transdisciplinary model},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/15.14.779},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2016/987-1479544205.pdf},
	author = {Andrej Flogie and Boris Aber{\v s}ek}
}
@article {395,
	title = {DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A COMPETENCE-BASED TEACHING PROCESS FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2014},
	month = {October/2014},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {740{\textendash}755 },
	abstract = {The quality of education is increasingly being measured less by the knowledge gained during schooling and more by the level of competence possessed by students at doing a particular job after completing their education. Target and process-planned curricula are being replaced more and more by competence-oriented curricula, especially in science and technology education, where competences, generally defined as the capability or the ability of an individual doing a job properly, are placed at the forefront. If competence is the desired criterion for educational quality, it can be easily established that suitable instruments and methods of measurement are needed for this kind of quality evaluation, which, however, are not yet available. Suitable instrumentation was developed in this study. Its use was demonstrated in the example of elementary education in Slovenia. },
	keywords = {educational quality, generic competences, methods of teaching, students{\textquoteright} skills},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/14.13.740},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2015/987-1450981788.pdf},
	author = {Dragica Pe{\v s}akovi{\'c} and Andrej Flogie and Boris Aber{\v s}ek}
}
