IMPLEMENTING RESEARCH–BASED TEACHING METHODS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL LABORATORY ACTIVITIES TO MEASURE OBJECT MASS

Abstract

The aim of the research is to substantiate the methodology of development of students' science
process skills on the basis of educational–experimental work of research character with application of research
methods and experimental verification of its effectiveness. Conducting educational and experimental work in physics
at school allows to practice such elements of research activities as planning research, conducting it, processing,
analyzing and presenting the results and getting conclusions. Also it is directed on development of research type of
thinking of students and activation of a personal position in educational process on the basis of acquisition of
subjectively new knowledge. A number of complementary methods were used to implement the aim of the research
and solve the tasks: analysis of scientific research in order to determine the relevance of the problem under study and
its theoretical foundations; method of pre–experimental research. In this study, the concept is divided into three sub
concepts: 1) Mass Definition, 2) Oscillation and 3) Simple Pendulum oscillations. The study used a pre–experimental
method. One group pre–test–post testing scheme was used. 28 students grade IX from a secondary school in
Taldykorgan participated in the study. The process of improving students' science process skills was examined based
on the normalized analysis of pre–test and post–test scores on three sub–concepts. The results of the study showed
the effectiveness of application the research teaching method for the improvement of science process skills in the study
of physics. Scientific novelty of the research consists in identifying objective didactic conditions and methods
(techniques) of stage–by–stage management of the process of improvement of students' science process skills in the
process of teaching and research activity. The paper is for educators, scientific community, and dealing with the
development of students’ research activities at teaching Physics.