Relation entre l'Activité des Étudiants au Laboratoire et la Fréquence des Séances de Laboratoire en Biologie

Abstract

We carried out a study about the relation of the laboratory frequencies and that of two biology programs (BSCS and Human Biology) in relation to the students' activities during their laboratory workshops of the HS fourth grade. The study was part of the EVALENSCI project (Évaluation de l'enseignement des sciences), an investigation group from the Faculté des sciences de l'éducation, l'Université de Montréal. The test used to assess the laboratory activities was created by S. Rouleau for her doctoral thesis. Our own assignment gave us the following results: (a) The laboratory sessions frequencies in the HS fourth grade have no significant effect on students' activities as measured by the test we used; and (b) Nevertheless we found that the two biology programs studied have some effect on the students' activities during their laboratory workshops or sessions. Such an influence accounts for only 10% of the observed variance. As we expected, the BSCS program induces more activities than the traditional one.