ABOUT SOME ASPECTS OF THE STATE OF THE PRACTICE OF FORMING STUDENTS’ NATURAL SCIENTIFIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The article considers the main results of questionnaire surveys of 203 teachers and 834 students of grades 5-11 of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, conducted according to the program of the ascertaining experiment within the framework of the study devoted to forming the natural-science picture of the world (NSPW) of students. The obtained data allow to judge the extent to which the process of teaching natural sciences and related subjects is aimed at the formation of the NSPW of schoolchildren; the implementation of the potential of extracurricular work in this process; the priority forms and types of extracurricular work and other aspects of the state of pedagogical practice. Some of the data allow to assess the dynamics of the level of interest of students in studying natural science subjects, as well as the effectiveness of the process of forming the NSPW based on their comparison with the results of other previously conducted studies. The set of obtained data is substantiated in the article as an empirical basis for developing the authors’ methodology for forming the NSPW of basic school students.