The Investigation of 8-Grade Students’ Science Achievement in Comparison with Textbooks

• Main Author: 陳永倫
• Other Authors: 洪志明
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28077134328222215275

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 化學系 === 94 === The study investigated 8-grade students’ science achievement in comparision with textbooks from the year of 1999,2003 and 2005 .The science achievement was defined by 27 trend items in the TIMSS 2003. The study was approached in three different ways. The first approach involved an item-based analysis of the textbooks,which included the old curriculum and the grade 1-9 curriculum. The second approach was based on the data of TIMSS 1999&TIMSS 2003 and survey data of 2005. The examined data were used to find some changes in these years. Finally,finding the relation between diffevent versions of textbooks and the student’s performance in trend items. Pearson chi-square was adapted to find the relations of textbooks content and student’s performance item by item in the second and the third approaches. The data which used in this research was from TIMSS 1999 and TIMSS 2003. It also included the 2005 data. The trend items were used to examine the 8-grade students in 2005. The followings are the results : 1.About TIMSS trend items, each edition of textbooks included similar quantity of items, but different content distribution. 2.Under the 23 trend items which had significant variations in different years. The students who participated in the test in 2005 behaved worse than the students who participated in the test in TIMSS 1999&2003. 3.The misconceptions still existed, there was no conspicuous improvement after using any new textbooks or edition. 4.students’ achievement were influenced by using different version of textbooks.