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TITLE OF PUBLICATION
SCIENCE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
IN THE BULGARIAN SCHOOL:
STUDENTS' BELIEFS
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Elena Boiadjieva, Milena Kirova,
Adriana Tafrova-Grigorova, James Hollenbeck
NAME OF PUBLISHER
Ministry of Education, Youth and Science (BULGARIA)
YEAR OF PUBLICATION
2011
LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION
Bulgarian
PUBLICATION TYPOLOGY
Newspaper / Magazine article
TARGET GROUP OF PUBLICATION
School Directors, Teachers, Policy Makers
SIZE OF THE PUBLICATION
Over 10 pages
DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS
This paper presents a study on the secondary students' perceptions of science classroom. There is no a similar large-scale research on the learning environment in Bulgarian schools. A Bulgarian version of the Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (CLES) was administered to 1364 students, grade 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, from 28 schools in 9 Bulgarian regions. This instrument has been proved to 56 be able to provide reliable information about students' perceptions and their expectations of à constructivist science classroom environment. Data collected were differentiated by grades (age), urban area, kind of secondary school, and gender to seek patterns and differences in students' beliefs. No differences in students' perceptions of their actual learning environment in any of these categories were detected. Neither difference in students' expectations of their preferred classroom climate was found. Quite the contrary, an evident difference between actual and preferred environment for all categories exists. Students' views of the actual classroom vary from traditional teacher-centered to predominantly constructivist student-centered environment, while their preferences definitely incline to an entirely constructivist classroom.
WHERE TO FIND IT
Chemistry, Vol. 20, Iss. 1, 2011
PDF OF THE PUBLICATION
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
Technical University of Gabrovo

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