The Use of Chemistry Textbooks at Basic Schools in the Czech Republic: A Questionnaire preparation and piloting
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to introduce the starting point, construction, piloting a questionnaire and preliminary results of the pilot study focused on the use of chemistry textbooks at basic schools. The tool is constructed in order to find out which textbooks are being lend to students, which textbooks are used by teachers to prepare for lessons and which parts of the textbooks are used in education.
Altogether 37 respondents took part in the pilot study. Based on their responses, the most frequently used are textbooks by the Fortuna publishing house.
Teachers did not show either satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the contemporary used books. This can explain the statement that more textbooks are being used by one teacher.
Based on piloting, the constructed tool can be considered reliable and usable for research.