Assessment of Formation of School Students’ Natural-Science Ideas on the Megaworld in the Additional Astronomical Education System
In the article is considered the proprietary technology of assessing formation of junior school students’ propaedeutic natural-science ideas on the megaworld in the additional astronomical education system, developed and approved on the basis of the Cultural and educational center named after V. V. Tereshkova in Yaroslavl. Authors reveal the essence and specifics of the purposes of primary school students training in the system of additional astronomical education, they consider difference of the educational purposes of the general and additional education, specify correlations (conceptual, instrumental, temporal) between school natural and mathematical disciplines, which must be taken into consideration at lessons of additional astronomical education organizing different forms of school students’ educational activities. The work contains recommendations about the organization of the educational process within additional propaedeutic astronomical education of junior school age students, according to the specific purposes of training described in the paper. The criteria developed by authors are offered to evaluate results and corresponding to them indices of formation levels of natural-science astronomical representations. Is developed a four-level scale of determining the student’s educational achievements with the appropriate indices of assessing the level of his preparation.