Didactic Capacity of Selected Czech and Russian Organic Chemistry Textbooks

Karásková, Natálie; Doležal, Rafael; Maltsevskaya, Nadezhda; Kolář, Karel

doi:10.2478/cdem-2019-0005

Abstract

This article presents the results of analysis of Czech and Russian textbooks intended for organic chemistry teaching at upper secondary schools. In principle, the estimation of textbook didactic capacity is based on decomposition of the textbook content into a set of different objects and their subsequent frequency analysis. In this study, three Czech textbooks and three Russian textbooks were characterized by particular and total didactic capacity coefficients. The indifference of the calculated didactic capacities was tested by chi-square statistics at a level of significance α = 0.05. The results show that the selected Czech and Russian textbooks are not significantly different.

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