Individual and group evaluation of students' knowledge of chemistry at the beginning of first year of gymnasia

The aim of the research was, by combining individual and group tests, to gather data on the level of acquisition of basic chemistry concepts studied in primary school, which might be taken as the basis for the continuation of studying chemistry in the gymnasium. Students' acquisitions were evaluated according to: the graphs of the notions they made independently; the results of the tests with tasks of classical types; questions they formed individually or in groups; the answers to the questions produced by their peers; and their ability to evaluate the quality of presented questions. Students were allowed to use their creativity in posing the questions. The research was conducted in several gymnasia and comprised 251 first year students with science - mathematics dominants.
Cilj ovog rada bio je da se kombinovanjem individualnog proveravanja učeničkih postignuća putem testa i grupnog proveravanja znanja prikupe podaci o znanju osnovnih hemijskih pojmova, učenih u osnovnoj školi, kao osnovi za nastavak učenja hemije u gimnaziji. Učenička postignuća procenjivana su na osnovu grafova pojmova, koje su oni samostalno pravili, rezultata na testu sa zadacima klasičnog tipa, pitanja koja su pojedinačno samostalno sastavljali ili u saradnji sa ostalim učenicima, zatim, kroz uspešnost u rešavanju pitanja postavljenih od strane vršnjaka i kroz sposobnost procenjivanja kvaliteta postavljenog pitanja. Učenici su imali priliku da iskažu svoju kreativnost prilikom formulisanja pitanja. Istraživanje je izvedeno na početku školske 2001/02. godine u prvim razredima gimnazija prirodno-matematičkog smera. Testiranjem je obuhvaćen 251 učenik.