Abstract
Computer supported experimenting is considered an important part of the science education. In this context, one of the roles of researchers working in the field is to design new activities and experimental tasks for computer based laboratories.
The framework for this study is a set of newly designed research-based computer aided laboratory activities for Chemistry and Biology proposed in the last 4 years by the international team consisted of researchers from 5 European countries (Tortosa et al., 2014). Herein, we present the partial outcomes resulting from Czech and Slovak part of the research focusing on answering the main question: "Do students understand the objectives and the point of the activities?".
In our study we tested 18 activities (12 for Chemistry and 6 for Biology). In total, 1408 evaluations of the mentioned activities (932 in Czech Republic and 476 in Slovakia) were performed with students from 15 participating schools.
In order to gain a relevant feedback about the quality of the activities a special tool (a questionnaire) has been administered to students after performing each activity. The findings of the study suggest that the tested materials could be useful and of quality for the most of the students.
However, in accordance with our previous studies (Tortosa et al., 2013; Skoršepa, 2015), the actual study also uncovered that the most students perceive their level of activity understanding more positively in comparison to the reality.