1 March 2008

Educational Competences in Science

DSE has received fundings from the Ministry of Education to carry through a project which will try to measure the educational competences in science.

The purpose of the project is to gain knowledge on the educational competences of the students in the upper secondary school in comparison to doing a technical higher education programme or one in natural science: What educational competences in science are crucial in order to start and finish the first year of studying at a natural science or techincal education programme? And to what extend can it be determined whether the students at the upper secondary school actually obtain these competences?

The work is focused on comparing the subjects physics, mathematics, and (natural) geography in the upper secondary school to the corresponding subjects at the university, but it will also contain other subjects and programmes. 

There has been made a series of pilot studies in order to plan the project thoroughly. In June 2008 data was gathered (interviews and questionnaires) from a third year class at the upper secondary school. In February 2009 a questionnaire will be send out to all first year students at Faculty of Science, UoC which will be supplemented by interviews.

Project duration: until summer 2009. The project group consists of Hanne Lillemose Sørensen, Lars Ulriksen, and Sebastian Horst - please apply to the project group for further information.