ON THE ISSUE OF THE FORMATION OF NATURAL SCIENCE LITERACY OF SCHOOLCHILDREN (EXPERIENCE IN ANALYZING THE RESULTS OF DIAGNOSTIC WORK)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the actual problem of the formation of natural science literacy of students. Despite the wide range of measures of scientific and methodological support for teachers implemented in recent years in the Russian Federation, about 15% of fifteen-year-old schoolchildren demonstrate an insufficient level of natural science literacy. In this regard, there is a need to search for reasons and circumstances that explain the lack of positive dynamics in the formation of natural science literacy of students. Based on the analysis of the results of the federal diagnostic work, the purpose of which is to determine the levels of natural science literacy of 8th grade students, as well as the analysis of the results of diagnostics of the formation of professional subject competencies of physics teachers, it is revealed that students studying with teachers with a high level of professional subject deficits show worse results than those students who study with teachers with average or minimum levels of professional deficits, a correlation has also been established between the insufficiently formed skills of natural science literacy of students and the professional subject deficits of physics teachers. It is concluded that the latter may be one of the reasons for the insufficient level of natural science literacy among schoolchildren.