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What Are the Typical Characteristics of Chemistry Teachers Who Use Digital Assessment Tools?
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | The primary role of assessment in education is to provide feedback for both sides of the teaching-learning process. In order to achieve this, teachers need efficient tools for evaluating educational outcomes (Fuentealba, 2011; Stowe & Cooper, 2019). Especially for large groups of students, it is challenging to properly evaluate academic performance as an individualized approach would be time-consuming. The solution can be based on introducing digital assessment tools (DATs) such as Socrative, Quizizz, Kahoot, Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, Plickers, or WordWall. These online applica- tions can process evaluation automatically, immediately, and simultaneously for all involved students (Andriani et al., 2023; Kocak, 2022). Our study deals with the implementation of DATs in upper-secondary chemistry education. Specifically, the fundamental objective was to map the experience and user preferences of grammar school chemistry teachers in the Czech Republic regarding the use of DATs in their classes. It includes which particular DATs teachers use, for what purposes, and with what frequency. The follow-up aim was to determine which personal characteristics of the teachers (such as gender, age, or education) influence their experience with DATs and which characteristics are not relevant. The relational analysis description is the main content of the presented poster. The form of research was a questionnaire survey involving more than 250 teachers, i.e., approximately one-fifth of the overall number of grammar school chemistry teachers in Czechia. To summarize the results of relational analysis, several connections between monitored variables were found. As anticipated, the substantive personal characteristics of respondents were age, length of practice, and region of activity (for instance, the difference between the cities with universities and other localities). However, with regard to the frequency of using DATs, gender was also found to be a relevant personal characteristic, which could be surprising. |