article SELF-EVALUATION BY STUDENTS OF THEIR SKILL LEVELS IN EXTRACTION AND PAPER
CHROMATOGRAPHY OF PLANT DYES
Gabriela Klimešová, Zuzana Haláková
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year: 2025
issue: 1
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online publishing date: 23/9/2025
DOI: 10.14712/25337556.2025.1.3
ISSN (Online): 2533-7556
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abstract
The acquisition of skills during the educational process is considered one of the main priorities of education policy. It is part of the curriculum documents in many countries in the European Union and beyond its borders. Similarly, the need to develop and improve skills is also included in the State Education Programme in Slovakia. In this paper, we focus on investigating the level of acquired science process skills (basic and integrated) of older students in science subjects at a selected Slovak grammar school. At the same time, we compared the level of science process skills between boys and girls, as well as among students who have done practical activities at different intensities during their studies at this grammar school (where three groups, more specifically characterized in the text, emerged). The results showed a relationship between the degree of science process skills acquired and the number of practical activities completed in a school laboratory setting. We also measured the respondents' levels of self-evaluation and confidence in their abilities and skills, which was compared with how they were assessed by an external evaluator. Girls in our research group tended to overestimate their integrated process skills and boys underestimated themselves in this regard.
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science process skills, self-evaluation, students, practical activities, plant pigments
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