Sammenhengen mellom utforskende undervisning i naturfag og elevers prestasjoner og interesse for og trivsel med naturvitenskap. Norske resultater fra PISA 2015.

The relationship between inquiry-based science teaching and students’ performance and interest and enjoyment. Norwegian results from PISA 2015.

Abstract

This article presents the results of an analysis of the Norwegian data from PISA 2015. The aim was to investigate the relationship between different types of inquiry-based teaching activities and student achievement and interest and enjoyment. For student interest and enjoyment, the results show a positive relationship with higher exposure to most of the different inquiry-based activities. When it comes to student achievement, our results draw a more complex picture. For instance, the highest mean performance is found for students who reported that they can explain their own thoughts and ideas in most lessons, compared to students who reported that they could do this in either all lessons or less frequently. For other activities, such as planning, carrying out and discussing experiments and investigations, these activities are related to highest performance when they are used less frequently. These results add nuance to our understanding of the relationship between how students perceive inquiry-based teaching activities, student achievement and interest and enjoyment in science in PISA data.