PT Journal
AU Hrivnova, M
TI Standards for elementary education - Health education and its evaluation in an educational setting
SO e-Pedagogium
PY 2018
BP 87
EP 101
VL 18
IS 1
DI 10.5507/epd.2018.009
DE Health Education; Standards for elementary education - Health education; Didactic (Achievement) test; Evaluation
AB The educational field of Health education in the context of lower secondary education is designed to develop an active approach to health, support an adequate lifestyle, minimize risk behaviour and shape health literacy in students.In 2010, the Ministry of Education decided on the preparation of the Standards for elementary education, which have been recommended by the Ministry since 2015 for the educational field of Health education in elementary schools.In 2015 an educational research study was conducted using a criterion-referenced achievement test based on illustrative tasks contained in the educational standard. The study involved students of grade nine of elementary schools; in the fourth stage of data processing the sample included 910 students. The objective was to identify the level of achieved/resulting curriculum of the educational field of Health education and to verify the setting of the minimum level of the Standard for elementary education - Health education. An analysis of the results of the achievement test suggested that the average level of achievement in the test was 39 % and that there were no statistically significant differences between the results of boys and girls.In conclusion, the average score achieved in the test suggests a low level of the resulting curriculum in the educational field of Health education and a relatively low level of health literacy in students. Similarly, the prediction of successful achievement by 80 % of students in grade nine as the minimum setting of the standard (illustrative tasks contained therein) was not confirmed.
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