The Expectations of Teachers and Students Who Visit a Non-Formal Student Chemistry Laboratory

Nicole Garner; Ingo Eilks

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2015.1415a

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Nicole Garner ¹, Ingo Eilks ² ^*

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¹ Insititute for Science Education, University of Bremen, Germany² Institute for Science Education, University of Bremen, Germany^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Background:
Non-formal student laboratory environments for primary and secondary school science education have become a major trend in the German educational arena in recent years. These non-formal student laboratory environments are thought to offer unique experimental learning experiences that often cannot be realized in daily school routines. The biggest challenge for successfully operating non-formal education is to carefully and firmly link outer- and inner-school learning.

Materials and methods:
To better facilitate this linkage this paper describes a study providing insight into students’ and teachers’ expectations of a non-formal student chemistry laboratory. Over a period of three years, 461 students and 37 teachers participated in a written survey.

Results:
The results clearly show that students and teachers have similar expectations when visiting non-formal laboratory learning environments.

Conclusions:
The main foci addressed here concern the improvement of personal attitudes and the intensification of practical learning experiences.

Keywords

attitudes
out-of-school learning
chemistry education
non-formal learning
practical work

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 11, Issue 5, 2015, 1197-1210

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Garner, N., & Eilks, I. (2015). The Expectations of Teachers and Students Who Visit a Non-Formal Student Chemistry Laboratory. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 11(5), 1197-1210. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2015.1415a

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Garner N, Eilks I. The Expectations of Teachers and Students Who Visit a Non-Formal Student Chemistry Laboratory. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2015;11(5):1197-210. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2015.1415a

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Garner N, Eilks I. The Expectations of Teachers and Students Who Visit a Non-Formal Student Chemistry Laboratory. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2015;11(5), 1197-1210. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2015.1415a

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Garner, Nicole, and Ingo Eilks. "The Expectations of Teachers and Students Who Visit a Non-Formal Student Chemistry Laboratory". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2015 11 no. 5 (2015): 1197-1210. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2015.1415a

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Garner, N., and Eilks, I. (2015). The Expectations of Teachers and Students Who Visit a Non-Formal Student Chemistry Laboratory. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 11(5), pp. 1197-1210. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2015.1415a

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Garner, Nicole et al. "The Expectations of Teachers and Students Who Visit a Non-Formal Student Chemistry Laboratory". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 11, no. 5, 2015, pp. 1197-1210. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2015.1415a