Đurđica Komlenović
GEOGRAFSKO ZNANJE ZASNOVANO NA ISKUSTVU I POTREBAMA ODRASLIH
DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2014.3.207
UDC: 911:37-053.8
Abstract: Subject of the research arecompetencies standards in the Program of experiment for functional elementary education for grownups. Our goal was to question the concept and projected level of suggested standards which are based on students’ competencies. The research had been conducted in the first half of year 2012. The sample included 52 seven graders from 35 schools in which Program of the experiment was being achieved (FOOO).Examination of student’s achievement was accomplished through the test of knowledge in two levels of achievement (basic and advanced level). In the examination itself we had been checking the concept of 8 descriptors (from total of 18) with 8 problems and 12 items.Problems represented one cluster which had represented two handbooks with other clusters from third cycle. Position of the clusters was different in-between handbooks, since we were interested in determining whether there was a difference in the index of complexity of the problems in one handbook compared to another. Placing the clusters in the particular handbooks was done in the respect of the problems’ content (including problems’ theme and type variety). The results of this research show that more than two thirds of the students solved problems correctly in the beginners level, and approximately half of the students solved problems in the advanced level. These results show that investigated descriptors for theadvanced level had not been well projected to examine the expected results in the beginnerslevel as well. It had also been determined, that the positionof the clusters in the handbooks does not affect the index of the complexity of the problems or the achievements of the students.
Keywords: Functional elementary education of grownups, standards, Geography.