Students' knowledge of plant anatomy and physiology as a reflection of interest in the teaching profession
| dc.contributor.author | Kováčik, Jozef | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vydra, Marek | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-08-18T06:12:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-08-18T06:12:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.description | In: Scientific Reports. London : Nature Publishing Group, 2026. ISSN 2045-2322. Roč. 16, č. 1 (2026), pp. 1-11. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Not only in Slovakia, there is a debate about the low interest in the teaching profession and the decline in students’ knowledge in international tests. The aim of this work was to find out what knowledge in the field of botany high school graduates (ISCED 3 A) have and compare their results with those of first-year biology teaching students at universities (ISCED 5 A). Students from seven high schools/gymnasiums (n = 96 respondents) had significantly better knowledge of plant anatomy and physiology than first-year students from three universities (n = 95 respondents): however, there was no interest in becoming a teacher among the former group. Some questions yielded a success rate of only a few percent among university students, indicating an insufficient basis for university studies. On the contrary, high school students preferring socially attractive fields of study (medicine or pharmacy) achieved higher scores in our test (up to 14% of the absolute score) but no significant difference was observed between high school students who plan to study abroad (27% of our respondents) and those who want to study at a Slovak university. Despite this partly pessimistic result, the finding that plant biology knowledge improves during university studies was positive, as evidenced by comparison of our students in the beginning and final year (23% increase in absolute score). In addition to the identified botanical shortcomings, we also discuss the socio-economic causes of low interest in the teaching profession and possibilities for improvement. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-46091-y | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/1598 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group : London | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | botanika | |
| dc.subject | botany | |
| dc.subject | vedomosti | |
| dc.subject | biológia rastlín | |
| dc.subject | učitelia | |
| dc.subject | teachers | |
| dc.title | Students' knowledge of plant anatomy and physiology as a reflection of interest in the teaching profession | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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